The purpose of this management level course is to extend the knowledge, skills, and abilities developed in the awareness level course (AWR-213) and to formulate considerations for the resilience of jurisdictional assets leveraging cross-sector partnerships. These considerations as part of a resilience action plan will enhance the whole community’s ability to manage the risk associated with critical infrastructure protection efforts.

AWR 187W: Terrorism and WMD Awareness in the Workplace is a self-paced (approximately 1 hour) web-based training course to provide students with the ability to recognize, report, and react to potential terrorist threats in and around the workplace. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to effectively.

This is an awareness-level course that provides security personnel with increased awareness of the various facets of terrorism and criminal activity that could occur at a retail facility. During this course, participants will examine weapons that may be used in a terror attack and will be able to describe various attack tactics that may be used against a retail facility. Participants will also be able to assess potentially suspicious behavior and will be able to conduct surveillance at their facility. The course also describes proper response to terrorist or criminal incidents.

The course is a self-directed, online tutorial developed by the International Council of Shopping Centers and the National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (NCBRT).

This 8-hour instructor led course teaches community leaders and emergency managers in rural communities how to plan for and execute disaster recovery efforts. Upon implementation, this course will assist rural communities with expediting recovery efforts and facilitating the long-term economic success of their communities.

This eight hour management/planning course is designed to help officials and emergency responders from rural communities in the development of continuity plans that will ensure the continuity of essential government functions across a spectrum of emergencies.

History demonstrates that disasters and emergencies often interrupt, degrade, or destroy local government’s ability to perform essential functions. This is especially true in rural communities where resources are typically limited under the best of circumstances. These jurisdictions must develop plans that address succession planning, redundant communications, and alternate site needs for their communities to face increasingly frequent threats.

In this course of four modules, participants will:

Identify the concepts of NIMS, the Emergency Managementycle, EMAP, and PS-Prep and recognize the applicability of this course to the functions of their organization.

Develop and implement a viable succession plan withdelegations of authority for a rural jurisdiction.

Construct a tiered, continuity communication programconsisting of the appropriate supporting systems for a localjurisdiction.

Identify and establish an all-hazards alternate facility for their local jurisdiction.

Construct and initiate continuity response and recovery plans for their jurisdictions.

Upon completion of this instructor-led course, participants will have the basic tools to develop continuity of government plans for rural communities with special focus on succession planning, delegation of authority, redundant communications, and alternate facilities.

This course will provide medium- to high-level decision makers with comprehensive planning tools to mitigate impacts on communities during large-scale incidents. This course examines the need for collaboration among responders in a community-wide disaster response. The NCBRT will deliver training through a combination of facilitated discussion, hands-on training, and traditional classroom-style instruction. Recognizing that response to disasters differs by locale, the course is designed to be tailored based on local participant needs.

The goal of Readiness: Training Identification and Preparedness Planning (RTIPP) is to teach participants how to create effective training plans for their agencies and jurisdictions using an approach that includes the whole community. The RTIPP process stems from the National Preparedness System (NPS) guidelines, and each module is based on a component of the NPS.Participants will learn how to implement a training planning process in their community using a seven-step process. First, participants will build an assessment team with representatives from the whole community. The whole community assessment team will examine and enhance the jurisdictional profile and identify and assess risks for their particular community. Next, the team should estimate the capability requirements and establish target skill levels for the capabilities most applicable to their community. Then, the assessment team can analyze their current set of capabilities and identify where their capability training does not meet their skill need.After completing the RTIPP process, participants will discuss RTIPP implementation in their communities, including barriers, and create an action plan to deliver and validate capabilities.

This instructor-led course addresses the training needs of staff who have a role in foodborne outbreak response. Participants include individuals from state and local government agencies with experience in foodborne disease outbreak response and knowledge of their agency’s outbreak investigation capabilities. Partners from federal agencies and the food industry will also benefit from participation in this course, as it identifies how the skills, resources, and expertise of all levels of government can be coordinated within an integrated national food system. Knowing how and when to engage the expertise of these specialists can save time during investigations, which can mean fewer illnesses and deaths. This course provides strategies for leveraging resources at all levels of government, as well as food industry subject matter experts, to build investigation and response capabilities. Overall, this course will help these entities function as a team during a foodborne outbreak response.

The purpose of this 8.0 hour, awareness level, instructor led course is to bring together rural pipeline security stakeholders including public safety, oil and gas pipeline representatives (large and small), local emergency planners, pertinent federal agencies, and other community stakeholders to recognize pipeline security threats and identify mitigation strategies within their jurisdictions to ensure that the rural pipeline sector is secure, resilient.

This is a 2-day non-technical course designed to introduce cyber to exercise planners to help them recognize the nature and reach of cyber, so they can better help their communities prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. Participants will recognize how cyber can be incorporated into exercises in a meaningful way.

The purpose of this 2 day management/planning level course is to provide the operational-level details to support many of the topics covered in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved AWR 148: Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents – Partnering Rural Law Enforcement and the Local School Systems awareness-level course. Rural schools, law enforcement, other emergency responders, and community stakeholders are often limited in their access to resources, so it is imperative that all potentially affected parties collaborate in planning, preparation, communication, response, and recovery in the event of a school-based incident. Moreover, these affected parties must come together to practice their interoperable skills through drills and exercises to ensure the strategies in place provide for an effective crisis response and collaborative recovery.

With the intent of building upon the foundation of the AWR 148 course and utilizing an all-hazards approach, this two-day course will provide content instruction, develop concept-specific skills, and provide opportunities for law enforcement, school personnel, and community stakeholders to collaboratively apply the course objectives in scenario-based applications.

This course is being developed in order to help caregivers in both in-home and facility care arrangements better reduce the vulnerability and risk of senior citizens in their care, and to help caregivers plan and prepare for their disaster response requirements.

The course material will familiarize participants with the wide range of unique vulnerability factors associated with senior citizens in relation to disaster events, and explain the dynamics behind how each of these vulnerabilities affects the ability of senior citizens to take more effective risk reduction and hazard preparedness actions (and to otherwise survive disaster events). Participants will be introduced to the full range of hazards that typically lead to major disasters.Participants will also learn how to identify potential hazards and discover different solutions that may be taken to address these risks.Caregivers will also learn about senior citizen social networks, vulnerabilities, and how to build disaster resilience. Finally, an emphasis on conveying basic risk communication with senior citizens will be discussed.

This is a planning and management-level course. This course will assist in preparing communities to meet the assistance and safety needs of older adults, and people with access and functional needs during a crisis event in rural communities using an approach with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Whole Community initiative. Due to the expected diverse student population, general information regarding crisis planning and response (incident command system (ICS), National Incident Management System (NIMS), etc.) will be discussed, flowing into a narrower discussion regarding the needs and care issues of older adults. Included in the discussion are short- and long-term care, pet care, medication, and the need for durable medical equipment and healthcare. The issue of individuals from assisted-living and nursing homes will be emphasized in lessons learned from various disasters.

This course enhances the participants’ abilities to build up an organization’s communication strategy for disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills of social media and its uses. and the current tools, methods, and models to properly make use of social media for crisis communication .

Participants will take part in facilitator-led activities that challenge them to identify effective social media platforms for their organizations to utilize during crises situations. In these activities, participants apply their knowledge with the presented material to actual disaster preparedness, response, and recovery issues. Through the use of social media tools, participants will learn and master skills to disseminate information and monitor, track, measure, and analyze social media traffic. Participants will be able to use social media as a method to identify warning signs that a crisis is developing.

The usage of social media for disaster preparedness has two components:

1) As effective means for providing updated information about a crisis, proactive steps must be taken prior to disasters in order for effective communications to occur.

2) As a part of crisis observation, managers should be monitoring social media platforms and channels that may be relevant to their organization.

Law Enforcement Prevention and Deterrence of Terrorist Acts, Customized

Mobile/Non-Resident

LSU

4.0

Law Enforcement

Access Control and Identity Verification

Law Enforcement Preparedness and Response

Prevent

NTED

This course provides participants with an overview of general security features employed by the US government to establish the validity of government documents, as well as known methods used to alter to counterfeit the types of documents commonly presented to law enforcement officers. Several government documents are discussed, including identity cards, driver's licenses, and social security cards.

This awareness-level course provides a brief overview of biological incidents that have occurred in the recent past; biological agents that are naturally occurring, could be accidentally released, or could be used deliberately; the typical course of disease and how that may vary in a deliberate incident; an overview of biological agents as terrorist weapons; and methods of protection from biological agents (with an emphasis on protection using methods and equipment readily available to emergency responders and the general public). The course is designed to help participants recognize when a biological incident is underway, take steps to report it, and know how to protect themselves during a biological incident.

This course enhances the ability of the various individuals who hold leadership positions in the community to prepare for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from all forms of disaster. This course will help to enhance these individuals’ understanding of disasters, risk assessment in the context of disaster management, prevailing emergency management procedures and operations, and the different vulnerability factors that exist within their local community.

The course material developed will familiarize community leaders with the available resources for natural disaster preparedness and planning. Participants who complete this course will be better able to recognize and define the roles and responsibilities they may be expected to assume given their leadership positions, and understand the roles that first responders and other support personnel are likely to assume to ensure primary assistance in the response and recovery phase of an emergency event.

This course will also provide community leaders with an understanding of the necessary plans and tools needed in planning for natural disasters, and will help them to better understand and identify the personnel best equipped to address response and recovery requirements in the case of an actual disaster.

The Sport Venue Evacuation and Protective Actions course provides sport and special event venue personnel and event management with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to prepare and/or enhance their event action plan and planning process. The course provides flexible and scalable protective measures for evacuation and sheltering-in-place, implementable in isolation or in response to a larger, multi-agency response initiative. This innovative course helps venue operators, first responders, emergency managers, la enforcement, contractors, promoters, and owners of events collaborate on evacuation and sheltering plans with actionable decision criteria that can be adapted for almost any event.

The three-day Field Force Operations course provides state and local law enforcement personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage and control crowds and demonstrations. Responders learn critical-thinking and intuitive decision-making skills that support safe and responsive action in regaining order. Responders receive instruction in protest types and actions, legal considerations, responsibilities of mobile field force teams, and crowd-control methods. The course culminates in a series of hands-on activities that allow responders to practice all of the learned skills (baton-holding positions, mass-arrest procedures, and riot-control formations) in a realistic context.

Field Force Extrication Tactics (FFE) is a three-day course which provides students the knowledge and skills to operate the tools necessary to extricate individuals safely from protester devices, while reducing liability and ensuring due process. Responders receive instruction in protest situations, legal considerations, responsibilities of extrication teams, and extrication techniques required to defeat protester devices. The course culminates in a series of hands-on activities that allow responders to practice the learned skills (operating extrication tools, defeating protester devices, and communicating with other students while operating power tools) in a realistic context.

The Initial Law Enforcement Response to Suicide Bombing Attacks, Customized course is designed to provide law enforcement officers with information on the tactics, techniques and procedures used tby suicide bombers, safety considersations and response considerations relative to improvised explosive devices, and interdiction strategies for law enforcement officers.

This awareness-level course provides a brief overview of biological incidents that have occurred in the recent past; biological agents that are naturally occurring, could be accidentally released, or could be used deliberately; the typical course of disease and how that may vary in a deliberate incident; an overview of biological agents as terrorist weapons; and methods of protection from biological agents (with an emphasis on protection using methods and equipment readily available to emergency responders and the general public). The course is designed to help participants recognize when a biological incident is underway, take steps to report it, and know how to protect themselves during a biological incident

The Personal Radiation Detector (PRD) Refresher course provides primary screeners with a review of material previously presented in the instructor led PRD course. The course emphasizes lessons of crucial importance providing information on the employment and use of a PRD during the initial detection of radioactive/nuclear materials in different scenarios. The course is divided into modules covering basic operational information and skills necessary to use the PRD in a variety of settings, radiation fundamentals, and Federal legal guidance

Participants completing this program will be able to properly perform patient triage, decontamination, treatment, and transportation in the event of exposure to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) weapons. The course consists of facilitated discussions, small group exercises, hands-on activities, and task-oriented practical applications. Course participants will use both state-of-the-art adult and pediatric human patient simulators to promote critical thinking skills while utilizing the RAPID – Care concept.

The Mass Prophylaxis Awareness for Public Health Emergencies course is a web-based course that enhances community preparedness by providing awareness-level training on the roles and responsibilities of the local public health community and its partners. Also, actions that may be taken by local jurisdictions during a public health emergency that require response to the deployment of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). An awareness of the Local and Federal resources and public health capabilities that exist to help provide post-exposure prophylaxis for a large population in response to a catastrophic CBRNE

This course focuses on the special challenges faced by emergency responders and first receivers in dealing with a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) or terrorist incident. Upon completion, participants will be able to respond to a WMD/hazardous materials incident. Responders will be able to preclude the spread of the hazard to the public and the environment.

This train-the-trainer course focuses on training qualified candidates to teach the Operational Level Response to HazMat/WMD Incidents Course (PER-212). Upon completion, particpants will be prepared to teach responders in their jurisdiction how to respond to a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD/hazardous materials incident and how to preclude the spread of the hazard to the public and the environment using the PER-212 course.

The Executive Leaders Program offers a graduate-level educational forum for the nation’s senior government and private-sector leaders. The four one-week sessions provide a challenging educational environment to enhance executives’ capacity to identify and resolve homeland security problems as well as an opportunity to build professional networks among high-level public and private-sector security officials. The program is designed to accommodate the busy schedules of participating executives and does not require the workload of traditional graduate-level education programs. Seminars are conducted on such topics as intelligence, critical infrastructure, border/immigration, understanding threats, strategic and crisis communications, adaptation and complexity as well as emerging homeland security issues. All topics are discussed on a strategic, policy and organizational design level with particular attention to intergovernmental planning challenges, enabling participants to strengthen working relationships across regions, agencies, and local, state, tribal, territorial and federal jurisdictional and private-sector lines.

Overview: The Wide Area Search course is designed to provide training for search responders to effectively conduct wide area searches due to natural disasters or man-made incidents.Scope: This course introduces the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform wide area searches at a disaster incident site. The course uses the 2007 Greensburg, Kansas tornado as a case study to demonstrate the various teaching points. The course concludes with a culminating event table top exercise that requires participants to utilize all the skills introduced throughout the course.

A Prepared Jurisdiction: Integrated Response to a CBRNE Incident is a two-and-a-half-day course designed to improve interagency collaboration during a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) incident. Disciplines within a community must be able to recognize their roles and the roles of other first responder disciplines when preparing for and responding to disasters. The course examines integration and command structure within a jurisdiction.Using a whole community approach, the course provides an opportunity for a jurisdiction to examine its overall preparedness capability. This goal is accomplished though interactive discussions between functional groups, collaborative planning, and participation in a day-long field training scenario. During the field training scenario, participants work together across a broad range of response disciplines for an integrated response to a CBRNE incident. This scenario presents participants with an incident that significantly challenges existing resources throughout their jurisdiction. The course also includes an after-action review to allow participants to self-assess their jurisdiction’s overall ability to work together to effectively respond to a CBRNE incident.

The Executive Education Seminar program conducted by the Mobile Education Team (MET) is an intensive half-day seminar on Homeland Security designed to help strengthen U.S. capability to prevent, deter, and respond to domestic terrorist attacks, and to build the intergovernmental, interagency, and civil-military cooperation that Homeland Security requires. The seminars are conducted by Mobile Education Teams (MET) comprised of nationally recognized experts in various areas related to Homeland Security. The Executive Education Seminar focuses exclusively on enhancing the capacity of top government officials to successfully address new Homeland Security challenges. For states, the target audience is the Governor and his/her Homeland Security team, which is expected to consist of the Governor’s senior staff and the heads of each department and agency that has a role in Homeland Security. The Executive Education Seminar is also available for major urban area senior Homeland Security leaders.

The Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), in partnership with other entities in the Pacific region, has developed the Pacific Executive Leaders Program (Pacific ELP), a graduate level education curriculum, to address specific challenges facing officials in these unique areas. This course is designed for mid- and senior-level homeland security professionals as an opportunity to develop the strategies, policies and organizational elements they need to better understand and address emerging regional security issues, public policy debates, terrorist threats and best practices in homeland security including: geographic isolation from the continental U.S. and each other; predisposition to various types of natural disasters; port security and safety concerns; and proximity to mainland Asia and their geopolitical influences.

Government agency, national association and private sector leaders are at the forefront of our nation’s emergency preparedness mission. In a rapidly changing environment, these leaders need continuous education and professional development to cultivate a more thorough understanding of emerging issues and public policy debates, and the underlying causes of the hazards and threats we face. Recognizing this, the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), in conjunction with the FEMA Technological Hazards Division, developed the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Executive Education Program to provide government and industry leaders with the tools and resources they need to think and act strategically in this area. The program allows local, state and federal partners to explore the complex and unique challenges associated with preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a commercial nuclear power plant major incident.

This is a performance-level course designed to address fundamentals associated with emergency response to biological incidents. As such, it provides detailed technical information and includes hands-on practice of actions required of emergency responders and medical personnel in biological incident situations. The course provides a brief overview of the terrorist threat that now faces the United States; biological agents that could be used by terrorists in executing their attacks; methods of protection from biological agents (with an emphasis on protection using methods and equipment readily available to most emergency responders); and tactics for identifying the presence of a potential biological threat, responding to an incident, and supporting law enforcement operations at the incident scene.

The course also supports the necessity for teamwork (Incident Command/Unified Command) among all responding agencies and actions that law enforcement personnel can take to support and facilitate the operations of fire and medical services and other responding agencies. In summary, the course will prepare representatives of State and local emergency response agencies to perform safely and effectively during an incident involving biological agents.

This web-based training course provides an overview of the expected effects and impacts of a detonation of an Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) in a major U.S. city. It also provides an overview of the current preplanning guidance and response strategy recommendations to maximize the preservation of life in an urban nuclear detonation of this magnitude. The course provides first responders, leaders, emergency planners, and support personnel with nuclear detonation specific response guidance, such as recognition, immediate actions, response planning damage zones, fallout/radiation hazards, and shelter and evacuation strategies. This course forms the foundation for additional courses in IND response operations, management, and planning.

This course addresses technical aspects associated with a tactical law enforcement response to a CBRNE incident. As such, it provides both detailed technical information and hands-on application of actions required for the safe and effective conduct of tactical operations in CBRNE environments.

Isolation and Quarantine for Rural Communities stands as the prerequisite core curriculum for a series of subsequent, sector-specific courses, including public safety, public health, and the private sector. This 4.5 hour, instructor-led course delivers the general knowledge necessary to begin planning for situations requiring the isolation and/or quarantine (I&Q) of a large portion of a local, rural population. The course explores I&Q in a modern context, discusses legal and ethical issues associated with I&Q, and presents preparedness, planning, response, and support considerations. In addition, Isolation and Quarantine for Rural Communities discusses communication strategies as well as I&Q resources. Intended for a blended audience consisting of representatives from public health, public safety, the private sector, and elected offices, this course also provides an opportunity for cross-sector communication and learning. This delivery method, in turn, can kick-start the planning process.

This is a performance-level course designed to address specific fundamentals and skills associated with an emergency response to a CBNRE incident. As such, it provides detailed technical information and includes hands-on practice of actions required of emergency responders in such situations.

Of special interest is the course’s emphasis on collecting forensically valid samples, which is accomplished through maintaining a secure chain-of-custody for the sample from the time of collection through laboratory analysis. This process is consistent with operations of all public safety responding agencies.

As required by the National Incident Management System (NIMS), this course also addresses the necessity for teamwork (Incident Command and Unified Command) among all responding agencies and actions that public safety responders can take to support and facilitate the operations of fire and medical services and other responding agencies. In summary, the course will prepare representatives of local and state emergency response agencies to perform a critical technical sampling and survey function safely and effectively during an incident involving CBRNE.

This instructor-led, awareness-level course addresses the fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to participate in the criminal intelligence process across an all-crimes, all-hazards, and all-threats perspective. Consisting of nine modules, the course is a mixture of classroom instruction, facilitated group discussions, and scenario-driven practical activities.

This course is designed to address technical and practical aspects of implementing an effective and safe tactical law enforcement response to a WMD incident. As such, it offers participants the opportunity to apply technical knowledge in scenario training for the experience of working in a WMD environment and testing abilities and capabilities to prevent, intercept, mitigate, and eliminate threats. The content in this course is an extension of the knowledge and skills taught in the WMD Tactical Operations course. This course introduces advanced techniques, which focus on the interdiction of WMD in transit or on the scene; therefore, a large emphasis is placed on linear targets such as transit-style buses; rail cars, both passenger and freight; subway cars; and aircraft. Furthermore, this course provides detailed technical information through presentations and progressively complex and challenging practical exercises in which participants apply knowledge gained and have the opportunity to preemptively intercept weapons in transit or on scene.

This course addresses response in a hazardous environment, with emphasis on evidence collection and recovery, as well as the paradigm shifts that are required for crime scene investigators to safely conduct a crime scene investigation in these types of environments. The course is designed so that participants will develop the required knowledge, skills, and ability to investigate a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE), toxic industrial chemical (TIC), or hazardous environment crime scene for the identification, documentation, presumptive field testing, preservation, and collection for laboratory analysis of CBRNE/TIC and non-CBRNE/TIC forensic evidence.

This performance-level course provides training on the fundamental elements of the CAMEO Suite of programs as they relate to emergency situations. As such, it includes detailed technical information and hands-on practice of critical elements of the CAMEO system and its associated programs (CAMEO Chemicals, CAMEOfm, ALOHA, and MARPLOT). To better understand how the programs interface, participants are provided opportunities to practice key procedures that allow users to enhance planning and response activities associated with community risks. These exercises clarify the connections between the programs and how they can enhance emergency planning and response activities.

This Performance-Level course provides training on the fundamental elements of the CAMEO® Suite of programs as they relate to emergency situations. As such, it includes detailed technical information and hands-on practice of critical elements of the CAMEO fm system and its associated programs (ALOHA®, MARPLOT®, LandView®, and Tier II Submit). To better understand how the programs interface, participants are provided opportunities to practice key procedures that allow users to enhance planning and response activities associated with community risks. These exercises clarify the connections between the programs and how they can enhance emergency planning and response activities.

The Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings, Residential course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to recongnize and respond to terrorist bombing incidents through lectures, exercises, and live-explosive field demonstrations. Emergency first responders are presented with information necessary to recognize explosives and their effects, identify Improivsed Explosive Devices (IEDs) and their components, and determine pre-detonation and post-detonation response strategies. Throughout this course, emergency first responders use the concepts they have learned to implement safe response strategies in bombing scenarios; understanding these recognition and response actions is critical to mitigating the effects of a bombing incident.

The Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings, Residential--Train-the-Trainer course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to recognize and respond to terrorist bombing incidents through lectures, exercises, and live-explosive field demonstrations. Emergency first responders are presented with information necessary to recognize explosives and their effects, identify Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and their components, and determine pre-detonation and post-detonation response strategies. Throughout this course, emergency first responders use the concepts they have learned to implement safe response strategies in bombing scenarios; understanding these recognition and response actions is critical to mitigating the effects of a bombing incident. Qualified participants who meet all course requirements are certified to teach an awareness-level version of the course.

This course prepares students to effectively, appropriately, and safely plan for and respond to a disaster incident involving children, addressing the specific needs of pediatric patients in the event of a community based-incident. Pediatric specific planning considerations include mass sheltering, pediatric-triage, reunification planning and pediatric decontamination considerations. This is not a hand-on technical course, but instead a management resource course for stakeholders like pediatric physicians, emergency managers, emergency planners and members of public emergency departments like EMS, Fire, Police, Public Health and Hospitals in field of disaster response and preparedness work.

The Prevention of and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidients, Residential course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to prevent and respond to suicide bombing incidents through lectures, exercises, and live-explosive field demonstrations. Emergency first responders are presented with information on how to prevent, deter, and mitigate the effects of a suicide bomber along with active suicide bomber and post-blast response strategies. Throughout this course, emergency first responders use a series of tools and documents, including the Nine Phases of a Bombing Attack, to understand the steps a suicide bomber follows to conduct their attack; understanding these steps is critical to the successful prevention of a suicide bombing attack.

The Preventiona and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents, Residential--Train-the-Trainer course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to prevent and resond to suicide bombing incidents through lectures, exercises, and live-explosive field demonstrations. Emergency first responders are presented with information on how to prevent, deter, and mitigate the effects of a suicide bomber along with active suicide bomber and post-blast response strategies. Throughout this course, emergency first responders use a series of tools and documents, including the Nine PHases of a Bombing Attack, to understand the steps a suicide bomber follos to conduct their attack.Qualified course participants who meet all course requirements are cerified to teach an awareness-level version of the course.

The Enhanced Sports and Special Events Incident Management course is a scenario-based practicum of three primary areas within the field of sports and special events management: a) incident management, b) crowd and evacuation management; and c) crisis information management. The course is intended to prepare emergency responders as well as event management personnel, concessionaries, athletic department personnel, and elected and chief executives who would be involved in the preparation for and response to a large-scale incident during sporting or special events. There are three rigorous, simulation-supported, scenario-based emergency response activities designed to hone both individual and team building decision-making and incident management skills in the context of sports and special events operations.

The Prevention of and Resonse to Suicide Bombing Incidents, Mobile course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to prevent and respond to suicide bombing incidents.Emergency first resonders are presented with information on how to prevent, deter, and mitigate the effects of a suicide bomber along with active suicide bomber and post-blast response strategies. Throughout this course, emergency first responders discuss the NIne Phases of Bombing Attack, to understand the steps a suicide bomber follows to conduct their attack; understanding these steps is critical to the successful prevention of a suicide bombing attack.

The Initial Law Enforcement Responde to Suicide Bomibing Attacks, Mobile course is designed to provide law enforcement officers with the skills and knowledge to effectively interdict and respond to an imminent person-borne or vehicle-born suicide bombing attack.The course provides participants with information on the tactics, techniques and procedures used by suicide bombers, safety considerations and response consideration relative to improvidsed explosive devices, and interdiction strategies for law enforcement.

ILERSBA is aawareness level course developed with support and cooperation from the Department of Homeland Security, National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board, and New Mexico Tech. This course provides front-line law enforcement officers with the skills and knowledge to effectively interdict and respond to an imminent suicide bombing attack (person-borne or vehicle-borne) or a non-suicide attack involving a vehicle-borne device.

This course is designed to equip first responders and first receivers with the knowledge necessary to enhance the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of an integrated jurisdictional medical response and subsequent clinical care following a bombing incident. This course is delivered concurrently with MGT-348 and is facilitated by instructors possessing expertise in both medical operations and explosives. Participants of the combined PER-233/MGT-348 will be assigned to the appropriate course based on their current duty responsibilities or emergency management/response roles within their respective organization

This course will familiarize participants with a range of natural hazards, the disaster-specific risks they pose (including likelihood and consequences), different factors that contribute to or reduce vulnerability, effective and accepted emergency procedures that may be taken to minimize financial and/or human impacts, and basic law enforcement duties that are typically required in the response to or recovery from major emergencies and disasters. Participants will be able to describe how the security professional, in the line of their duties, can reduce the likelihood of a business/operations interruption (in light of identified hazards or actual events) through hazard mitigation and response preparedness actions and will understand how security professionals may receive hazard and warning information relevant to their facility (and communicate those risks to organization/company leadership, staff, clients, and guests). The course introduces the methods and systems by which the emergency services communicate, and explain the different ways in which security professionals may tap into these established systems in order to better contribute to the organized community-wide first response efforts. Finally, the course will help the security professional to reduce their personal vulnerability to disaster consequences that might otherwise make them unable to perform their emergency responsibilities.

This one-day awareness-level training course develops participants’ knowledge and skills in conducting damage assessments. It provides participants with an overview of the basic damage assessment process, the importance of providing quick and accurate assessments, and the commonalities and differences in data requirements for different groups. Participants will engage in a discussion of and practice conducting a damage assessment action plan in order to ensure that resources are in place for an adequate response, followed by a hands-on exercise They are given an opportunity to practice conducting a damage assessment with hands-on exercises using free as well as Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) tools and software to collect damage assessments. Participants apply learned content and concepts through structured activities

The Personal Protective Measures for Biological Events course is a 1-day,8-hour course which includes an overview of the bio-threat, demonstrations of proper donning and doffing of personal protective equipment, and technical decontamination protocols. The course will also provide the learners with activities that include agility drills and practice skill sessions that include donning and doffing of PPE using the buddy system. The course will culminate with the learner's demonstrating the donning and doffing of PPE in a technical decontamination exercise that will include a self-assessment and instructor performance checklist with feedback

This course focuses on the recognition, prevention, and deterrence of terrorist activity and criminal high-consequence incidents for law enforcement and other public safety professionals (such as investigators, parole or probation officers, public health investigators, EMS, fire service, and others in public safety-related positions).

The PER-243-1 Primary Screener/Personal Radiation Detector (PRD) Train-the-Trainer Course train Participants who are qualified instructors selected by their agency to deliver the PER-243 Primary Screener/Personal Radiation Detector (PRD) Course to effectively train emergency responders. These qualified instructors will learn to prepare and conduct the delivery of the PER-243 course. This course provides Train-the-Trainer level instruction on the employment of personal radiation detectors. The course further includes teach-back experience as well as extensive practice with the course Station Guides to enhance expertise of personnel instructing others in the tasks required to perform the Primary Screener role.

Under simulated field conditions, using an Agency- or CTOS-supplied Radio-Isotope Identification Device (RIID), the Participants will respond as Secondary Screeners and employ the RIID to detect, verify, locate, measure, identify, and assess unknown radiological sources for the purpose of adjudicating the alarms. Further, they will collect spectra on the RIID and upload this data to computers or smart phones in preparation to forward the spectral data for reachback assistance.

This eight-hour awareness-level course is designed to provide emergency managers, first responders, and community members across all sectors with a basic understanding of the latest knowledge in tornado science, forecasting, warning, and preparedness. This course will prepare participants to understand the basics of tornado science, the weather forecasting process, the tornado warning process, and the fundamentals of tornado safety and preparedness. Since tornadoes can strike anywhere in the United States, it is important that every community be ready for the hazards associated with them. This awareness-level course will fulfill the goals of the “whole community” approach to emergency management by reaching a broad sector of the community. Multiple core capabilities will be addressed, with particular emphasis on “public information and warning” and “threats and hazard identification.” Participants who represent sectors such as mass care services, health and social services, operational communications, critical transportation, and planning would further expand the discussions in this course to other corresponding core capabilities.

This course trains Primary Screeners to employ a Human-Portable Radiation Detector (Backpack) to detect and verify radiation alarms, localize the radiation source, measure detected radioactive material, and adjudicate alarms. These activities will be performed as they pertain to radiation alarms detected in/or on people, vehicles, packages, and/or facilities. Training will be accomplished using an assigned Backpack and a variety of sealed radioactive sources (SRS) in the learning activities (drills).

The Surface Transportation Emergency Preparedness and Security for Freight by Rail or Highway (STEPS-Freight) course goal is to provide participants with the training necessary to identify the roles and responsibilities of preparedness, prevention, and response to emergencies involving surface transportation freight and passenger systems. Participants will be able to identify the hazards of Hazardous Material/ Weapons of Mass Destruction (HazMat/WMD/IEDs and apply this information to the appropriately to the applicable areas of an incident. Participants will gain familiarization with NIMS/NRF in order prioritize organizational management needs, resource allocation, evacuation strategies and response operations. Participants will demonstrate proficiency during an incident while providing solutions to minimize the impact to the responders, the citizens, the environment, and the critical infrastructure of the area and address the priorities of the National Preparedness Guidelines and Target Capabilities List to include Mission Areas such as Communications, Planning, Risk Management, CBRNE Detection, Critical Infrastructure Protection, On-site Incident Management, Responder Safety and Health, Citizen Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place, and others.

This course provides an introduction to the roles and responsibilities of preparedness, prevention, and response to emergencies involving surface transportation freight and passenger systems. Participants will be introduced to a clear overview of freight and passenger system threats facing jurisdictions/organizations of public and private officials and the organizational structure that must be implemented according to the National Response Framework (NRF) in an incident. This course will provide information on how to identify threats and vulnerabilities of freight and passenger system operations within their jurisdictions/organizations, to recognize and prioritize the importance of facility and conveyance hardening, to gain familiarization with the National Incident Management System (NIMS)/National Response Framework (NRF) to prioritize organizational immediate actions and response operations, and to develop and apply management/planning tools for counter Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) operations and evacuations.

This course will provide information to allow participants to conduct threat assessments and identify vulnerabilities within state, local, and tribal jurisdictions as they relate to mass transit and passenger rail systems. Participants will be able to recognize and prioritize passenger transportation facilities and conveyances hardening in order to prevent and protect them against identified threats involving Hazardous Material/ Weapons of Mass Destruction (HazMat/WMD), and especially IEDs. As part of the National Priorities outlined in the Nation Preparedness Guidelines through the National Incident Management System (NIMS) with concurrence with the National Response Framework (NRF) efforts, participants will be able to implement security and response management plans, implement procedures on interagency communication, incident command, evacuation planning and national response resource needs and notification. Roles and responsibilities of both public and private sector will be highlighted as protection resources and response partners. Participants will demonstrate proper utilization the NIMS/NRF to prioritize organizational immediate actions and response operations.

This course is designed to address specific fundamental skills associated with an emergency response to incidents involving crude oil. As such, it provides detailed technical information, including hands-on practice of actions and responding to a scenario-based Crude Oil derailment incident. Crude Oil by Rail covers the basic knowledge and technical skills required to successfully respond to incidents involving both fire and spills during a derailment. Primarily, the participant will participate in a classroom session that will discuss the basic response information necessary for first responders. Participants will then observe a boil-over and foam demonstration. Lastly, the participant will participate in a derailment scenario where they will; conduct a site assessment of the scene, product identification, basic damage assessment, and tactical control of the incident.

The purpose of this course is to determine the capability of offsite emergency response infrastructure following an extended plant shutdown, or shutdown caused by electric grid blackouts, malevolent act, pandemic or natural disaster (e.g., hurricane, tornado, flood, storm, earthquake) in the vicinity of commercial nuclear power plants. This course is designed to provide the student with fundamental knowledge of the Disaster Initiated Review (DIR) Standard Operating Procedure and Post Disaster Assessment of Offsite Capabilities Checklists. Upon successful completion of this course, graduates will be able to identify the responsibilities, procedures and protocols for the accomplishment of a DIR and demonstrate an ability to function as a member of a DIR Team by participating in a DIR table-top exercise.

Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) is four-day course designed for personnel who are responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, and administration of emergency management programs and plans for healthcare facilities/systems (e.g., hospitals, clinics, community health centers). Functional areas addressed by this course include an overview of relevant standards, regulations, and organizations; integration with agencies and stakeholders; the Incident Command System (ICS) as it applies to healthcare; plans and the planning process; facility and personnel preparedness; exercises and training; surge and related mass casualty issues (including patient care and/or ethics, evacuation, public affairs, and risk communications), recovery, and finances/reimbursement.

The Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Operations course is a 4-day course which provides participants with the Operations-level knowledge and skills needed to respond to incidents of natural or human-caused disaster and to use appropriate protocols and equipment to achieve mission objectives. Participants are trained to assess problems and risks, plan for team response, select equipment and instrumentation appropriate to the event, perform the required tasks according to the Environmental Health response protocol, and perform reporting and follow-up as instructed. The majority of the course is conducted through hands-on operational practice or response to simulated events. Participants perform Environmental Health Responder tasks while wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) Levels C and D. The course also includes training at the COBRATF where participants engage in scenario-based exercises that require critical thinking skills related to the selection and use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) detection and sampling instruments.

The Strategic National Stockpile Preparedness Course is a 3 day course designed to give federal, state, and local officials information on how to best plan and prepare for a public health emergency and how to use and manage the Strategic National Stockpile in response to a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or technological accident.

The Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device Detection (VBIED) course is a one day course which provides response personnel with the knowledge and skills in the improvised explosive device (IED) threat, identification of components and devices, methods for reacting to IEDs, and the procedures for inspecting vehicles to detect vehicle-borne IEDs. The course includes an overview of the vehicle-borne IED threat, fundamentals of IED and explosive effects, means for creation of homemade explosive devices, vehicle-borne IED clues, vehicle inspection procedures, and a comprehensive exercise for inspecting vehicles and identifying vehicle-borne IED threats.

This course provides knowledge and practical application in the procedures, techniques, regulations, and guidelines for evaluating REP exercises. Exercise evaluation practical application includes the observation of video vignettes of REP exercises or the observation of a live exercise activity and the development of exercise narratives for submission using the REP Exercise Evaluation Tool. This course fulfills the credentialing training requirements for becoming a Type III REP Exercise Evaluator.

RCTIC is designed to integrate federal, state, local and tribal radiation detection assets responding to the threat of a radiological or nuclear event. Participants are representative of deployable law enforcement or regulatory control personnel who would serve in a “search, locate and identify” capacity. Employment and conduct of these search activities would include urban, suburban and remote environments possessing structures, vessels, aircraft, rail or other transportation venues which may be used to conceal or transport a radiation threat. The primary focus of this training includes the use of organizationally maintained radiological and nuclear technology applied in unified employment with specifically determined search tactics.

The Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents course addresses healthcare response at the operations level for the facility and its personnel. This course prepares healthcare responders to utilize the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)—integrating into the community emergency response network while operating an Emergency Treatment Area (ETA) as hospital first responders during a mass casualty incident (MCI) involving patient contamination. The healthcare responders will determine and use appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and conduct triage followed by decontamination of ambulatory and nonambulatory patients as members of a Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT).

The HERT TtT course is designed to provide instructional presentation guidance specific to HERT-HT course materials. Healthcare responders will serve as trainers for the team within their facility. The course assists the healthcare responders in understanding presentation techniques, conducting practical application, and preparing and maintaining lesson plans appropriate to HERT requirements. It provides the healthcare responder with an understanding of HERT-HT course material that will be presented at his or her facility to include the following: team assignments and functions, proper wear and removal of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), decontamination procedures, Emergency Treatment Area (ETA) location selection and operation, and victim triage. This is a basic training course, providing a capability to conduct local HERT follow-up capability training; it does not certify the HERT healthcare responder as an instructor.

Radiological Emergency Response Operations is a 5-day, 40-hour training course offering lectures, hands-on training, and team exercises. Learners review, discuss information, and practice skills necessary to effectively respond to a radiological incident. Topics for this course include Radiological Concepts, Radiological Response Team Operations, Commercial Nuclear Power Facilities, Plume Modeling, Radiological Instrumentation, and Personal Protective Equipment and Decontamination. At the conclusion of the Radiological Emergency Response Operations course, learners will be able to safely respond to and manage incidents involving various radiological hazards through a practical, performance-oriented, team-response approach. The course culminates in an exercise that implements the Incident Command System (ICS) in response to an incident and requires team coordination.

The Advanced Radiological Incident Operations course is a 5-day, 40-hour resident course providing participants with the advanced skills necessary to safely respond to and manage incidents involving radiological hazards. Participants apply these skills in exercises based on realistic radiological incident scenarios, set within the ICS structure.

This course focuses on the recognition, prevention, and detterence of terrorist activity and criminal high-consequence incidents for law enforecement and other public safety professionals (such as investigators, parole or probation officers, public health investigators, EMS, fire service, and others in public safety-related positions).

Initial Law Enforcement Response to Suicide Bombing Attacks (ILERSBA) is an eight-hour performance level course sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a division of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The training course is designed for state, local, and tribal law enforcement officers and provides them with knowledge and skills needed to effectively interdict and respond to an imminent suicide bombing attack.

The course is designed to strengthen the capacity of trainers by applying principles of adult learning and a variety of training methodologies and facilitation skills, in addition to practice training sessions. The Train-the-Trainer course is based on the premise that each participant comes to the training session with unique professional experiences to share. Including the active input of participants increases the ability to develop and then put into practice effective training strategies.

Field Force Command: Executive is an 8-hour course that prepares the management-level responder to serve as a member of an incident management team during a civil action or disorder. The course provides instruction on incident management, incorporating planning considerations and other responsibilities of management-level responders during such an event. The course also provides responders with the ability to develop a local Incident Action Plan (IAP) for a civil action or disorder and implement response actions from the management level.

The goal of the DSNS Mass Antibiotic Dispensing Train-the-Trainer (MADT) is to train participants in the systematic planning and implementation of amass dispensing training and prepare them to teach others using the SNS Mass Antibiotic Dispensing curriculum.

Maturing the Role of Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Critical Infrastructure

Protect, Respond

CDP

The Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) REP Plan Review Course (RPPR) is a three day course which focuses on the review of REP emergency plans, specifically the NUREG 0654 planning standards that address the public’s health and safety.

The Healthcare Leadership and Administrative Decision Making is a four-day course which addresses disaster preparedness at the facility and system level. Healthcare leaders must be prepared for any incident that results in multiple casualties—whether it is the result of a natural disaster; an accidental or intentional release of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosives (CBRNE) hazard; or a disease outbreak that results in an epidemic or pandemic. This course focuses on preparing healthcare leaders to make critical decisions in all-hazards disaster emergency preparedness activities. Essential disaster planning response and recovery functions are presented in a lecture/discussion format and applied in a tabletop exercise and a two-day functional exercise.

The Managing Public Information for All Hazards Incidents Course is intended for personnel who are assigned or may be designated to perform public information duties during an incident, emergency, or disaster. The course provides practical knowledge in the role of the public information officer, the National Incident Management System, emergency communication methods, risk communication, interpersonal skills, message development and delivery, legal considerations, press conferences, the operation of a Joint Information Center, stress management, and strategic communication and planning. Additionally students conduct various public information activities and exercises to include message writing and the conduct of press conferences. The course culminates in the conduct of a practical exercise designed to plan, develop, integrate, and disseminate public information for an emergency, incident, or disaster as part of a Joint Information Center.

To ensure that individuals supporting state, local, tribal, and territorial disaster recovery efforts have an understanding of the concepts and constructs of the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) and the Recovery Federal Interagency Operational Plan (FIOP).

Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who are members of the NDRS Cadre at the Specialist level in all titles. Other members of the NDRS cadre may also be an appropriate audience if they have not yet had this course.

FEMA recognizes the need to tie training programs to an established set of emergency management competencies and to a Career Development Program through a progressive training and education system that includes the entry-level Academy, called the National Emergency Management Basic Academy. Training objectives for this course are based on the newly established emergency manager competencies that the National Emergency Management Association; the International Association of Emergency Managers; and state, local, territorial, and tribal emergency management professionals have established in coordination with EMI.The following topics in emergency management are covered in this course: history; legal issues; intergovernmental and interagency context; influencing and organizing; social vulnerability issues; managing stress; collaboration, preparedness, and team-building; mitigation, response, prevention, and protection; ethical decision-making; recovery; technology; administration; and the future.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.

This course provides the participants with an overview of scientific principles and concepts that shape our increasingly dangerous world. The contents of the course include the following:

Introduction to Science of Disaster provides a definition and benefits of science.

Earth Science describes how the Earth’s design sets the stage for the world’s natural hazards including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides/sinkholes.

Climatology describes the scientific basis of common atmospheric hazards including convective storms, tropical cyclones, and other hazardous weather.

Chemical and biological basics identifies the scientific basis of chemical and biological threats.

Explosive, radiological, and nuclear fundamentals identifies the scientific basis of those threats.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.

This course is designed to give basic concepts and planning steps to those new to the field of emergency management so that they may apply planning discipline and skills to challenges in their jobs. The course content includes Emergency Management Planning doctrine and steps to take to accomplish writing plans and using them to deal with special events, which are common challenges for all jurisdictions.The content also derives from the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101, Developing and Maintaining State, Territorial, Tribal and Local Government Emergency Plans, and its six-step planning process and inclusive whole community philosophy. Likewise, doctrine from the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 201, Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA), is included in the course. Special event planning is then explained in the course, and table group activities to analyze plans for special events are conducted.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.

This course introduces participants to what the Public Information Officer (PIO) does in emergency management, along with basic information about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The PIO topics covered include the role of the PIO; communication tools and resources encompassing social media; effective communication; preparing the community through outreach and other means; and communication in an incident. The IPAWS topics covered include what the system is and does, preparing alert and warning messages, and writing common alerting protocol messages. This is a 2-day classroom course that gives participants time to perform activities and exercises to reinforce the knowledge and build basic skills.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.

This course is intended to train and exercise the experienced Joint Field Office (JFO) Finance and Administration (F&A) Section Chief in leadership and management skills to effectively perform his/her roles and responsibilities as a member of the management team at a complex Federally declared incident.

Selection Criteria: This course is for any FEMA Comptroller Disaster Workforce Cadre Member who has experienced serving multiple disasters as Finance and Administration Section Chief in FEMA JFO disaster operations or any FEMA national personnel who have experienced serving multiple disasters as Finance and Administration Section Chief in FEMA JFO disaster operations. The individual should have completed all or substantially all of the qualifying criteria to be certified as a Qualified F&A Section Chief prior to attending this course. Approval to attend this course is given by the FEMA Office of Chief Financial Operations (OCFO) Field-Based Operations Cadre Manager, or a member of the OCFO/FEMA Headquarters who can sign on behalf of the OCFO Field-Based Operations Cadre Manager. The signature of the aforementioned is required. If the person is also a FEMA Regional employee, the signature of the FEMA Regional Training Manager is required.

The Basic Academy Train-the-Trainer consists of two days of discussions about course objectives, how to set up and facilitate the class, time management, and other general topics.The last three days consist of student teach backs that summarize portions of the Basic Academy course subject matter and describe activities and exercises with time for critique and questions.

All topics areas in the Basic Academy courses are covered in the Train-the-Trainer to support a training experience that combines knowledge of all fundamental systems, concepts, and practices of cutting-edge emergency management. The Academy provides shared classrooms of adult learners and skillful instructors resulting in a solid foundation upon which to build further studies and sound decisions.

Selection Criteria:This course is intended for those emergency managers and trainers from Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies who have extensive background in emergency management and experience in training adults.

Minimum 5 years experience in emergency management (recommended to be current practitioners)

The purpose of this training is to provideemergency management, preparedness, andhomeland security personnel with information thatwill assist them in assessing their jurisdiction’s oragency’s Emergency Management Program usingthe Emergency Management Standard by EMAP.The training also provides participants with theappropriate qualification to learn how to assessother Applicant Emergency ManagementPrograms using the Emergency ManagementStandard by EMAP.

Improve national preparedness by preparing exercise professionals to effectively and systematically apply the exercise evaluation and improvement planning process consistent with HSEEP.

Selection Criteria: Individuals with substantial involvement in the exercise evaluation and improvement planning function within their jurisdiction or organization. Specifically, this course is recommended for individuals with responsibilities in exercise programs, including emergency program managers, exercise training officers, security managers, and emergency services personnel in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

The Master Exercise Practitioner Program is a series of two classroom courses (E0132, E0133) focusing on advanced program management, exercise design and evaluation practices in each phase of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP).

MEPP is designed for mid-level exercise practitioners with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in an emergency management (EM) exercise design. Participants refine and practice skills critical to performing the phases of the HSEEP cycle, such as exercise program management, MSEL writing and evaluation data analysis. Candidates apply the key learning concepts from the MEPP curriculum relative to their organizations and their own jurisdictional environments.

Selection Criteria: Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years’ experience designing and conducting emergency management exercises consistent with the HSEEP Doctrine. This experience should include the development of discussion-based and operations-based exercises and experience in a Simulation Cell (SIMCELL). Candidates are expected to have overall experience with exercise program management as well as individual experience in the following roles:

Analysis from home/come prepared with the following documents for peer review and best practice discussion: EEG, Participant Briefings, Hot Wash

Selection Criteria: Participation in this course is limited to EMI Resident MEPP Candidates who have successfully completed E0132, Exercise Foundations, Program Management, Design and Development. Courses must be taken in a series.

This 3-day course addresses the practicalities of conducting successful interactions, managing the classroom experience, and making presentations. It covers the basics of adult learning and of training evaluation for those wanting more experience in this area.

Participants have several opportunities to practice presentation and instructional skills, first as spokespersons for small groups, then during short duo presentations, 3-minute individual presentations, and, finally, 20-minute individual presentations, using material related to their own programs or functions. Detailed feedback is provided.

A large number of job aids is provided to help in the application of training skills. To prepare for the 20-minute presentation, participants should come to class with materials from a pre-existing course that is related to their work.

Selection Criteria: Federal, State, tribal and local staff designated to train in various EM subject areas. Also, subject matter experts who have the responsibility to deliver FQS Training.

This advanced Situational Awareness (SA) and Common Operating Picture (COP) training applies best practices and facilitates the improvement of an integrated SA and COP system. The primary focus of the training is to apply critical steps required for an SA and COP system to effectively improve critical decision-making prior to, during, and after an incident.

Core Principles for Hazard Mitigation Community Education and Outreach Specialists

Mobile/Non-Resident, Residential

EMI

26.0

Emergency Management

Public Information and Warning

Mitigation

EMI

This course provides the opportunity for Hazard Mitigation (HM) Community Education and Outreach (CEO) Specialists to attain the knowledge and skills needed to demonstrate the behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books and to perform tasks that will be required during a disaster operation.

The goal of this course is to provide the opportunity for Hazard Mitigation (HM) Community Planner Specialists to attain the knowledge and skills needed to successfully demonstrate the behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books (PTBs) and to perform tasks that will be required during a disaster operation.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience is FEMA HM Community Planner Specialist trainees, and the secondary audience is FEMA HM Community Planner Specialist Experts and HM Community Planner Crew Leaders.

This course will introduce participants to job responsibilities, sources of information to do the job, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular job function.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM Insurance Specialists. HM Insurance Team Leaders who have not previously participated in this training may find it to be a valuable review. HM Floodplain Management Specialists will benefit from this workshop as there is overlap and collaboration between the two specialties.

This course provides the opportunity for Hazard Mitigation Preliminary Damage Assessment Specialists to attain knowledge and skills needed to successfully demonstrate the behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books and to perform tasks that will be required during a disaster operation.

This course provides the opportunity for Hazard Mitigation (HM) Hazard Performance Analysis (HPA) Specialists to attain knowledge and skills needed to successfully demonstrate the behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books and to apply analytical approaches to performing responsibilities identified in the HM HPA Specialist Task List in the Hazard Mitigation Field Operations Guide.

This course will provide the opportunity for HM Crew Leader candidates to attain knowledge and skills to successfully demonstrate the Hazard Mitigation-specific behaviors/activities in their position-specific PTB and perform responsibilities identified in the position-specific HM Crew Leader Task Lists in the Hazard Mitigation Field Operations Guide (HMFOG).

This course builds on the information provided in E0313, Basic Hazus, by providing an in-depth exploration of the Hazus Hurricane model. An overview of the hurricane-related inventory components is provided. An emphasis is placed on techniques for defining a hurricane hazard, adjusting parameters for identifying economic and social impacts from hurricanes, and interpreting and applying model outputs. Best practices for using the hurricane model to support emergency management are identified. Course instruction includes lectures, demonstrations, and multiple hands-on individual and group activities.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers and GIS specialists; planners; and others who support Hurricane mitigation and response activities and who wish to expand their Hazus skills beyond those developed in E0313, Basic Hazus.

This course builds on the information provided in E0313, Basic Hazus, by providing an in-depth exploration of the Hazus Flood model. An overview of the flood-related inventory components is provided. An emphasis is placed on techniques for defining a flood hazard, adjusting parameters for identifying economic and social impacts from floods, and interpreting and applying model outputs. Best practices for using the Flood model to support emergency management are identified. Course instruction includes lectures, demonstrations, and multiple hands-on individual and group activities.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers and GIS specialists; planners; and others who support flood mitigation and response activities and who wish to expand their Hazus skills beyond those developed in E0313, Basic Hazus.

This course builds on the information provided in E0313, Basic Hazus, by providing an in-depth exploration of the Hazus Earthquake model. An overview of the earthquake-related inventory components is provided. An emphasis is placed on techniques for defining an earthquake hazard, adjusting parameters for identifying economic and social impacts from earthquakes, and interpreting and applying model outputs. Best practices for using the Earthquake model to support emergency management are identified. Course instruction includes lectures, demonstrations, and multiple hands-on individual and group activities.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers and GIS specialists; planners; and others who support earthquake mitigation and response activities and who wish to expand their Hazus skills beyond those developed in E0313, Basic Hazus.

This course builds valuable skills for effectively using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, with emphasis on Hazus, to support disaster operations. Participants learn the roles and responsibilities of the disaster management team as well as how GIS can support the activities that they perform. Particular emphasis is placed on strategies for identifying, acquiring, and analyzing appropriate GIS compatible data for disaster operations. Numerous hands-on activities provide examples of effective applications of GIS tools, with a focus on Hazus.These activities address areas such as debris management, sheltering, and infrastructure damage assessment. Participants also complete a capstone activity that provides an opportunity to use Hazus to support a realistic disaster scenario that is based on a community of interest to the participants.

Selection Criteria: FEMA Mitigation staff, Mitigation Disaster Reservists, and state Building Science and GIS professionals; additionally, Federal, state, local, and tribal officials who have a role and responsibility in the Joint Field Office (JFO), with priority given to Mitigation, Individual Assistance (IA), and Public Assistance (PA). The course also targets select decision-makers on the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC), in the Regional Operations Center, and the state Emergency Operations Center.

This course will provide a learning environment where participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate required behaviors and activities in the Hazard Mitigation (HM) Insurance Specialist Position Task Book and in the Job Task List.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for FEMA Disaster Workforce employees who will serve as HM Insurance Specialists during a disaster. Floodplain Management leaders will also benefit from this course.

This course teaches new GIS users how to apply the ArcGIS for Desktop software to support disaster mitigation, response, recovery, and risk management. ArcGIS for Desktop allows users to analyze their data and create geographic knowledge to examine relationships, test predictions, and ultimately make better decisions. Course participants complete numerous hands-on activities that help them learn to develop informative maps as well as to use tools that answer questions based on where things are located and what is known about them. It also develops a variety of skills that can be used to create, edit, manage, and analyze both spatial and tabular data. While this course does not provide hands-on instruction specifically on Hazus-MH, all activities use Hazus-MH inventory and analysis outputs.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers as well as specialists responsible for risk assessment, response, recovery, and other emergency management-related activities that have an interest in using ArcGIS to support their needs.

Each topic is designed to be discussed and reviewed in greater detail than the basic course. Developed and real-life scenarios will be examined and activities will be conducted in each section to make sure participants not only understand the rules and regulations but also why they are in place and how to apply them in the particular topic areas. This course is activity-rich and participants can expect to be engaged throughout the course.

Debris Management Planning for State, Tribal, Territorial and Local Officials

Residential

EMI

24.0

Emergency Management

Planning

Prevent, Recover

EMI

This course provides an overview of issues and recommended actions necessary to plan for, respond to, and recover from a major debris-generating event with emphasis on state, local, and tribal responsibilities. Developed from a pre-disaster planning perspective, the course includes debris staff organizations; compliance with laws and regulations; contracting procedures; debris management site selection; volume-reduction methods; recycling; special debris situations; and supplementary assistance.

Selection Criteria: State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management personnel, including public works and waste management staffs, who are responsible for planning and/or implementing debris removal and disposal actions.

This course will provide the opportunity for HM program group supervisor candidates to attain knowledge and skills needed to successfully demonstrate the hazard mitigation-specific behaviors/activities, and to perform the duties required to develop and implement a Hazard Mitigation Strategy for a Level I/II event.

Selection Criteria: FEMA employees with open Position Task Book (PTB) for the HM Group Supervisor title, or invited by the HM Program Office.

This course provides the opportunity for HM Task Force Leader candidates to attain knowledge and skills needed to successfully demonstrate the HM-specific behaviors/activities in their FEMA Qualification System Position Task Books and perform responsibilities identified in the position-specific HM Task Force Leader Task Lists in the Hazard Mitigation Field Operations Guide.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course includes HM Task Force Leader candidates in the following positions:

HM CEO Task Force Leader

HM Floodplain Management and Insurance Task Force Leader

HM Grants and Planning Task Force Leader

HM HPA Task Force Leader

The secondary audience includes qualified HM Task Force Leaders who have not had the opportunity to complete this course.

This course provides new Hazard Mitigation (HM) Disaster Workforce employees with a practical, applications-based opportunity to learn the basic concepts, principles, and practices needed to be successful in HM disaster assignments.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for FEMA HM Specialist Trainees who have recently been hired or assigned to the HM Cadre in an incident management or incident support role, and for those who have been working in such positions without this training.

This course provides key state staff with updated information on the disaster assistance process and programs. The focus is on management issues the State Coordinating Officer (SCO) may face in relationship with Federal, state, local, and tribal partners in the Joint Field Office (JFO) and Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

The purpose of this course is to educate students on the process of preparing and submitting quality Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs planning and project subapplication elements.

This course will provide course participants with the knowledge and skills required to effectively implement and closeout a Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant project.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course includes personnel of local jurisdictions, tribal governments, and private non-profit organizations that are eligible applicants for Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grants; state mitigation staffs responsible for assisting Unified HMA sub-applicants; FEMA employees who assist state mitigation staff and/or who are responsible for monitoring Unified HMA grant awards; and staffs of public or private sector organizations that offer consulting services to Unified HMA grant applicants. The secondary audience for this course includes state and tribal liaisons, environmental planning and historical preservation staff, Federal Coordinating Officers, and Grants Program Directorate staff.

The Hazardous Materials Technician for CBRNE Incidents (HT) provides responders, who are designated as hazardous material (HAZMAT) technicians with the technician-level knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to respond confidently to a CBRNE incident site and use a variety of technology to detect and sample hazardous substances. Participants learn about technology and instrumentation used when responding to chemical, biological, radiological, and explosive hazards, with the majority of the time on each topic spent in hands-on operation of select detection equipment. Participants operate the equipment while wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) Levels A, B, C, and D. The course also includes training at the COBRA Training Facility where participants engage in toxic-agent and scenario-based exercises that require critical thinking skills related to the selection and use of CBRNE detection and sampling instruments.

This course is specifically designed for communities and regional and state agencies that are participating in the Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Programs. The course is designed and tailored based on partners’ needs, and its goal is to address specific areas of the CTP Program that are complex or involve new technology in order to give the partners a more advanced level of specific technical training. Examples of topics include topographic data development; base mapping and digital flood maps; and map production and processing procedures.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, and local staff responsible for implementing and overseeing the CTP initiative. The course is intended for current CTP members who are active mapping partners, and who are responsible for administering the CTP Program for a state or regional agency, or local community partner, and/or managing the technical aspects of mapping activities.

FEMA is standardizing the electronic data collection and storage of all environmental and historic preservation (EHP) reviews. The Environmental and Historic Preservation Management Information System (EMIS) is an Internet-based system that facilitates the process of evaluating FEMA-funded projects for potential impacts to natural and cultural resources and for documenting project compliance with EHP laws, Executive Orders (EOs), and other requirements.

Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP and Non-EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.

The National Environmental Policy Act requires all Federal agencies to consider the effects of their actions on the environment and to comply with all applicable Federal Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) laws, regulations, and Executive Orders (EOs). Topics include: Coordination with Public Assistance and Individual Assistance; Geospatial Information Systems Training for EHP Specialists; Tribal Consultations; and Cadre Management Tools (Standard Operating Procedures, Task Books, etc.). The course stresses consistency and best practice approaches to EHP incident operations and management.

Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP and Non-EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.

This course is usually delivered in the field and provides an introduction to FEMA’s Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) compliance responsibilities.

Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.

One of FEMA’s most important stakeholders is the state Emergency Management Agency. These state agencies are responsible for implementing FEMA’s programs. FEMA’s EMI conducts training for new State Emergency Management Directors. The Resident training course at EMI is conducted in cooperation with the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), an organization which represents the State Directors. The training is designed to bring new State Directors together at EMI for opportunities to learn about FEMA programs, what NEMA has to offer, and to further develop skills necessary to lead their departments.

Selection Criteria: State Emergency Management Directors and Deputy Directors who have not previously taken this course. A limited number of FEMA Federal Coordinating Officers are also eligible to attend.

This course provides in-depth training needed to implement the regulations of the National Historic Preservation Act and other related historic preservation (HP) laws required for FEMA’s programs/activities.

Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP and Non-EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.

The goal ofthis courseis to provide recently hired Floodplain Management Specialists with an overview of floodplain management basics, and the knowledge and skills specifically related to performing floodplain management job functions when working at a declared disaster.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for HM Floodplain Management Specialists, HM Floodplain Management Team Leaders, and HM Floodplain Management and Insurance Group Supervisors in FEMA’s Disaster Workforce. A secondary audience is HM Insurance Specialists, HM Insurance Team Leaders, and other specialists from the Hazards and Performance Analysis Group who will support floodplain management initiatives.

Managing Floodplain Development through the National Flood Insurance Program

Mobile/Non-Resident, Residential

EMI

24.0

Emergency Management

Planning

Common

EMI

This course provides an organized training opportunity for local officials responsible for administering their local floodplain management ordinance. The course will focus on the National Flood Insurance Program and concepts of floodplain management, maps and studies, ordinance administration, and the relationship between floodplain management and flood insurance.

Selection Criteria:

Local officials responsible for administering local floodplain management ordinances, including but not limited to floodplain management administrators, building inspectors, code enforcement/zoning officers, planners, city/county managers, attorneys, engineers, and public works officials. Federal/state/regional floodplain managers also are encouraged to attend. The course is designed for those officials with limited floodplain management experience.Attendance will be limited to two participants from any state for each offering. Participants should have less than 3 years of full-time experience in the field of floodplain management.

The National Dam Safety Program Technical Seminar (NDSPTS) is a two-day seminar held each year in February. A topic is selected by the training subcommittee of the National Dam Safety Review Board (NDSRB) that highlights relevant issues in dam safety engineering and safety.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course is limited to professional staff of dam safety programs at the Federal, state, and tribal levels, professional staff of dam safety programs at the local level who are nominated to represent their state by their state Dam Safety Officer, and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms. Student Travel Stipend funding is only available for one State Dam Safety Officer designated public employee per state.

This course is designed as an introduction to the fundamental concepts of benefit-cost (BC) analysis. Participants will learn how to obtain BC data and conduct analyses using the latest version of the Benefit Cost Toolkit. This course will not teach how to conduct level-two BC analyses.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is Federal, state, local, and tribal hazard mitigation staff; applicants/grantees; subapplicants/subgrantees; and personnel who are involved in the grant application development process and provide technical assistance.

This course provides engineering and economic guidance to architects, engineers, and local code enforcement officials in retrofitting existing 1- to 4-family residential structures situated in flood-prone areas. The retrofitting measures presented are creative, practical, compliant with applicable floodplain regulations, and satisfactory to most homeowners.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

This advanced floodplain management course is a dynamic and interactive instruction that covers the following four topics in detail:

Placement of Manufactured Homes and Recreational Vehicles in the Floodplain (1 day)

National Flood Insurance Program Flood Insurance Principles for the Floodplain Manager (1 day)

Higher Standards in Floodplain Management (1 day)

Hydrology and Hydraulics for the Floodplain Manager (1 day)

Each topic is designed to be discussed and reviewed in greater detail than the basic course. Developed and real-life scenarios will be examined and activities will be conducted in each section to make sure participants not only understand the rules and regulations but also why they are in place and how to apply them in the particular topic areas. This course is activity-rich and participants can expect to be engaged throughout the course.

Selection Criteria: Certified floodplain managers or community officials with 2 years of full-time floodplain management experience. Federal, state, local, and tribal officials will take precedence.

This advanced floodplain management course is a dynamic and interactive instruction that covers the following five topics in detail:

Floodway Standards (1 day)

Disconnects between National Flood Insurance Program Regulations and Insurance (1 day)

Common Noncompliance Issues (½ day)

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) (½ day)

Substantial Improvement/Substantial Damage (1 day)

Each topic is designed to be discussed and reviewed in greater detail than the basic course. Developed and real-life scenarios will be examined and activities will be conducted in each section to make sure participants not only understand the rules and regulations but also why they are in place and how to apply them in the particular topic areas. This course is activity-rich and participants can expect to be engaged throughout the course.

Selection Criteria: Certified floodplain managers or community officials with 2 years of full-time floodplain management experience. Federal, state, local, and tribal officials will take precedence.

This course provides formal training for FEMA staff to learn how to provide substantial damage technical assistance to communities in a disaster operation. Within FEMA’s disaster workforce, various Hazard Mitigation (HM) staff have different roles in providing this assistance to communities. The HM Field Operations Guide includes task lists and an operating procedure, which describes how FEMA staff provide post-disaster substantial damage technical assistance.

Substantial damage regulations are important mechanisms of the National Flood Insurance Program designed to reduce flood risks. FEMA has taken substantial steps to improve the capability of communities to comply with substantial damage regulations, including the development of FEMA 758, Substantial Improvement/Substantial Damage Desk Reference; FEMA 784, Substantial Damage Estimator (SDE 2.0); the FEMA 784 CD, which includes the SDE 2.0 tool; training for how to use the SDE 2.0 tool; and the SDE 2.0 User’s Manual and Field Workbook.

Selection Criteria: FEMA HM floodplain management specialist trainees, and qualified HM floodplain management specialists who have not already completed the course. HM floodplain management specialist experts and HM floodplain management substantial damage crew leaders who have not completed the course will also benefit from the training, but are not the primary audience.

The course is designed to strengthen the abilities of local jurisdictions to successfully prepare for and handle volunteer and donations management issues that may arise. The course content and activities may also serve as a template, thereby enhancing uniformity in addressing areas of donated unsolicited goods, unaffiliated volunteers, and undesignated cash. This training also provides information regarding the state’s volunteer and donations management responsibilities, which are designed to help build relationships between government and non-governmental organizations.

Selection Criteria: Local emergency managers and representatives of voluntary organizations

This course teaches the components of a volunteer and donations management program to be administered at the state level during a large-scale disaster. Course participants will be equipped to prepare a program for their state to effectively manage unaffiliated volunteers, unsolicited donations of goods, and offers of undesignated cash. The course content and activities also serve as a plan template, thereby increasing continuity among states and their voluntary agency partners. This training also provides information regarding FEMA’s volunteer and donations management responsibilities and helps build relationships between government and non-profit organizations.

Selection Criteria: Priority will be given to states that send a team of participants: the state Volunteer/Donations Coordinator and leading stakeholders of statewide voluntary organizations. Each FEMA region is invited to send a human services staff member. Other invitees include Federal, state, tribal, and territorial emergency managers.

Dam safety is not just the responsibility of the owner and operator of the dam. The best way to reduce, mitigate, or eliminate the risks of flooding resulting from normal dam operations and dam failure is for the entire community to work together to reduce the effects of a potential dam failure by increasing preparedness, reducing potential consequences, improving communications, and land use planning.

This course will teach dam owners; emergency service providers; emergency planners and managers; land use and transportation planners; community leaders; and other members of the community to work together through upfront planning to reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences resulting from a dam failure, and to recover more effectively in the event of a failure.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for stakeholders in communities that could be affected by a dam breach or failure. Applicants should have experience in one or more of the following areas: dam ownership, dam operations, emergency action planning, emergency response, land use planning, or transportation planning.

Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration (RP) is a three-day course that provides essential information and the skills required to develop, implement, administer, and sustain a respiratory protection program that fully complies with the laws and regulations regarding emergency-response actions.

This course provides training for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). This course expands upon information covered in the ICS 100 and ICS 200 courses.

Selection Criteria: Individuals who may assume a supervisory role in incidents. Note: During a Type 3 incident, some or all of the Command and General Staff positions may be activated, as well as Division/Group Supervisor and/or Unit Leader level positions. These incidents may extend into multiple operational periods.

This course is designed to present information on the risks posed by natural hazards, and the basic scientific and engineering concepts for hazard-resistant buildings and facilities. The course reviews information pertaining to impacts of wind, flood, earthquake, and wildland/urban interface fire on the constructed environment, and explains key performance and construction issues related to floods, wind, wildfires, and earthquakes.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

This course offers a hands-on introduction to Hazus, FEMA’s GIS-based tool for analyzing the social and economic impacts from natural hazards including hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods (riverine and coastal). Impact assessments for each hazard include shelter needs, short- and long-term economic losses, and debris estimations. Hazus can also assess impacts on transportation and utilities, agricultural losses, and vehicle losses for selected hazards.

Topics addressed in this course include overviews of building and population inventory components; options for describing the magnitude and extent of modeled hazards; loss estimation methodologies; and options for creating maps, tables, and reports that describe hazard impacts.

Particular emphasis is given to exploring and interpreting the outputs that Hazus can generate as well as discussing how that information can be applied to support emergency management needs and goals. All activities are based on Hazus provided inputs.

After completing this course, participants can optionally take additional Hazus courses to learn to refine loss estimations by adjusting model parameters or by integrating their own inventory and hazard data.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal specialists, researchers, insurance companies, utilities, and others who are involved with or interested in understanding the social and economic impacts associated with floods, hurricanes, or earthquakes.

This course provides an in-depth exploration of the Hazus inventory, which describes the buildings, infrastructure, and populations that are at risk from hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. It includes an overview of the methodologies that were used to develop and compile the Hazus-provided inventory. However, the focus of the course is on developing the technical skills for updating and maintaining the inventory with user-provided data.

Participants will work extensively with a variety of data management tools including ArcGIS. It is expected that they will have experience with ArcGIS prior to attending the course. Those without this experience will be challenged to successfully engage in course activities.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers, planners, and GIS specialists who want to learn how to integrate user-developed building and other non-hazard inventory data into the Hazus modeling process. A working knowledge of ArcGIS, including the ability to create and manipulate data, is required.

This course gives participants the tools needed to provide the best service to disaster survivors based on the New FEMA vision of being the Nation’s pre-eminent Emergency Management Agency. The primary audience for this course is FEMA nationwide Individual Assistance (IA) staff, including IA Branch Directors and IA Group Supervisors, as well as Operations Section Chiefs and Federal Coordinating Officers.

Selection Criteria: Participants should have served in one disaster operations field position as Group Supervisor or Team Lead or Task Force Lead and Crew Lead.

This course trains participants to post financial transactions to the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). Classes are conducted using the computer laboratory. Participants will be instructed by an expert system user about transactions for the following: disaster assistance, travel advances, receiving reports, invoices, expenditures, approvals, reports, and more. For each type of transaction, participants will be guided through an activity, and then given a similar activity to perform on their own. Successful completion of the course is required before access to the system will be granted.

Selection Criteria: Required for any FEMA financial staff member who needs to record transactions to the accounting system as part of his or her duties. Reservists who have the course on their FEMA Qualification Sheet have first priority.

This course focuses on the recognition, prevention, and deterrence of terrorist activity and criminal high-consequence incidents for law enforcement and other public safety professionals (such as investigators, parole or probation officers, public health investigators, EMS, fire service, and others in public safety-related postitions).

This course law enforcement responders receive instruction in the current terrorist and extremist threat, apply community-based policing principles to the identification and prevention of terrorism and extremism, develop knowledge in the critical law enforcement skills required to respond to and operate safely in a CBRNE incident environment. The course culminates in a series of hands-on activities that allow responders to practices all of the learned skills (employing weapons, retaining weapons, and apprehending suspects while wearing personal protective equipment [PPE}; preserving hazardous evidence; moving and communicating tactically while wearing PPE; conducting sampling of hazardous materials, etc.) in a realistic context..

This course is designed for state-level staff responsible for coordinating and administering individual assistance (IA) to those affected by emergencies or disasters. It is intended to enable participants to coordinate state response and recovery operations for individuals and families.

Selection Criteria: Target audience are for state personnel who will perform the role of State Individual Assistance Officer (or back-up) during disaster operations.

This course is specifically designed for FEMA employees who have held the position of Individual Assistance Branch Director (IABD). This exercise-based course will provide real-world issues, challenges, requirements, and solutions to build on the participant’s past experiences in the field.

The goal of this course is to ensure that IABDs are fully able to successfully perform in a high-profile or catastrophic event.

This course provides training to FEMA Individual Assistance (IA) personnel to enable them to initiate, operate, and transition Other Needs Assistance (ONA) during a Presidentially declared event in a joint option state.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is FEMA IA ONA specialists and trainees, Human services managers, and state ONA (joint option states only).

This course provides school district teams with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to review, enhance, and sustain an all-hazards/threats emergency operations plan (EOP). In every unit, emphasis is placed on working with the whole community—including parents/guardians and outside agencies such as law enforcement, fire, and emergency management—on planning for and mitigating all threats and hazards, including active shooter/mass casualty incidents. Through this course, participants will learn how to leverage existing relationships and build new working relationships with community-based protection, response, and recovery organizations to help their schools better plan for, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from emergencies.

This course introduces G0364, Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools, field course materials, and prepares participants to deliver G0364 in their state or at the local level. Participants may have venue-specific issues that need to be included in the presentation of materials or activities that they feel would be appropriate for their jurisdictions. A worksheet is provided that gives a mechanism for participants to recognize key issues of the course and make venue-specific comments that would be useful in their course delivery.

Selection Criteria: Participants must demonstrate a working knowledge of school planning through experience and training, and must be experienced in adult education.

This course provides individuals and school teams with the knowledge and tools needed to update their all-threats/hazards school emergency operations plan (EOP), and to identify how to train and exercise the school EOP. This course follows the guidance set forth in FEMA’s Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG 101) for developing an EOP and explains how to engage the whole community—including parents/guardians and outside agencies such as law enforcement, fire, public health, and emergency management—in school preparedness and planning for and mitigating all threats and hazards. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to review their existing EOP and identify areas for improvement and have an opportunity to build partnerships and develop positive working relationships among first responders and school staff.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for school and emergency management personnel who are interested in comprehensive planning for grades K–12. Examples of potential participants include:

Local first responders (SRO/Law Enforcement, Fire, and Emergency Management)

This course provides state, local, and tribal staff with an overview of FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) Program, process, and policies. Course topics include introduction to program laws, regulations, and policies; PA process; grants management; eligibility; hazard mitigation in the PA Program; compliance with other Federal laws and regulations; and project formulation.

The Law Enforcement Protective Measures for CBRNE Incidents, Train the Trainer course provides law enforcement supervisors and trainers with the ability to train other law enforcement responders in CBRNE-specific skills, reinforcing their ability to identify suspicious activity that could lead to a CBRNE event and with the knowledge to respond to a CBRNE event. Successful completion of LEPM TtT results in a local law enforcement supervisor or trainer who comprehends and can apply the appropriate immediate protective actions to safely and appropriately respond to a CBRNE incident at the performance defensive level.

This course is intended to provide the participants with an introduction to the national framework within which the Department of Defense (DoD) supports Federal, State, local, and tribal authorities in overwhelming natural and/or manmade disasters. Participants are provided the opportunity to act as staff planners in three exercise scenarios, utilizing current policy guidance and DoD procedures. It is jointly sponsored by EMI and DoD.

Selection Criteria: FCO Cadre and FEMA Operations Section Chiefs with disaster field experience involved in response activities. Selection is on a space-available basis. Contact the EMI Course Manager and the DoD Course Manager at http://www.dsca.army.mil/. DoD personnel need to enroll through http://www.dsca.army.mil/.

This course is designed to train participants to effectively use FEMA P 55, Coastal Construction Manual (4th Edition). The course and publication provide a comprehensive approach to planning, siting, designing, constructing, and maintaining homes in the coastal environment.

The course contains in-depth descriptions of design, construction, and maintenance practices that, when followed, will increase the durability of residential buildings in the harsh coastal environment and reduce economic losses associated with coastal natural disasters.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

This workshop provides information about emergency management (EM) and the benefits of and resources available for integrating EM degree programs and EM course offerings at institutions of higher education. It is a facilitation-driven workshop focused on creating an Action Plan to be applied within each participant’s academic department. During the session, participants will be inspired to see the importance of EM and will create an Action Plan that they can use, along with a toolkit of additional resources that will be provided, when they return to their schools to increase their school’s EM-related offerings.

The primary purpose of this symposium is to encourage and support inter-school dialogue on a variety of issues and topics related to hazard, disaster, and emergency management higher education, as well as to facilitate direct dialogue between the Emergency Management Higher Education Program and representatives of colleges and universities with emergency management programs to improve program quality. A secondary purpose of the symposium is to provide information to the faculty and administrators of emergency management collegiate programs that could be used in the development of new emergency management college courses and programs or in the modification of existing courses—akin to an “educate the educator” posture.

Selection Criteria: Faculty and administrators with colleges and universities which:

Have a hazard, disaster, or emergency management academic program in place;

Are investigating or developing a hazard, disaster, or emergency management academic program; or

FEMA is seeking to interest in developing such a program.

In addition, a small number of participants are FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Program materials developers and representatives of stakeholder organizations.

This course provides training for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). This course expands upon information covered in ICS 100 through ICS 300 courses, which are prerequisites for the ICS 400 course.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is senior personnel who are expected to perform in a management capacity in an Area Command or Multi-Agency Coordination Entity.

This new course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of experienced FEMA Mass Care staff. It will focus on expanding participants’ knowledge of mass care at the Federal, state, local, and non-governmental organization levels; providing practical mass care exercises; integrating best practices of mass care services; and assisting in the development and credentialing of FEMA Mass Care staff assigned to Area Field Offices, Joint Field Offices, and Regional Response Coordination Centers.

This course provides the history and context of mass care and emergency assistance (MC/EA), FEMA’s and other organizations’ roles in MC/EA, the roles and responsibilities of FEMA staff assigned to MC/EA missions, and provides training on the tasks performed by the MC/EA Specialist.

This new course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of experienced FEMA staff serving in mass care (MC) leadership positions at the Joint Field Office (JFO) or Area Field Office (AFO). It will focus on providing tools to expand attendees’ knowledge of MC supervisory responsibilities. The course will include information on the integration of MC operations at the Federal, state, local, tribal, and non-governmental organization levels; focus on the functions of an MC group in a JFO setting; provide practical MC exercises for a hands-on instructional approach; and integrate best practices of MC services.

This course provides law enforcement personnel receive an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills learned through PER-264, Law Enforcement Protective Measures for CBRNE Incidents in practice and in realistic incident response scenarios. During the first portion of the course, students practice establishing initial command of CBRNE incidents. Students receive advanced practical application in the identification of CBRNE hazards, personal protective equipment (PPE), safety considerations, and hazards and evidence preservation. The last portion of the course consists of collaborating with other law enforcement professionals to respond to realistic CBRNE incidents intended to develop critical thinking and intuitive decision-making skills that support safe and responsive action in the event of an actual incident.

The goal of this course is to provide FEMA Housing Assistance staff with the practical knowledge, skills, and resources to satisfy position task book requirements in order to become a qualified Housing Task Force Leader or Housing Group Supervisor (HGS).

This course was developed by the American Red Cross and FEMA to train a variety of participants in sheltering practices and techniques. It is designed for use with its companion piece, the Shelter Field Guide.

This course prepares participants to establish and sustain an active local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. The responsibilities of a local CERT Program Manager are various. This course defines the core components of a local CERT program and focuses on effective practices for:

Planning and interacting with a broad range of stakeholders;

Managing program resources;

Sustaining the program course topics, including:

Developing local CERT program goals and a related strategic plan;

Promoting a local CERT program;

Orienting, managing, and retaining CERT members;

Recruiting, funding, managing, and retaining CERT trainers;

Acquiring and managing program resources;

Delivering and managing effective training and exercises;

Developing policies and procedures for operating a local CERT program; and

Evaluating and sustaining the program.

The CERT Program Manager course is delivered at EMI sequentially during the same week with E0428, Community Emergency Response Team Train-the-Trainer. Participants who wish to take both courses must submit a separate application for each course. Although either course may be taken separately, EMI encourages participants to take both courses the same week.

Selection Criteria: Professionals and volunteers who are designated to be or are interested in being appointed a local CERT Program Manager and those who are already in the CERT Program Manager position.

Convey the messages and intent of the CERT program (e.g., safety, teamwork, place in overall community Emergency Operations Plan).

Assure that participants achieve the objectives of CERT Basic Training.

Create a comfortable yet managed learning environment.

Course topics include:

CERT history, program purpose, and values.

Materials and requirements for the CERT Basic Training course.

Roles of the CERT instructor.

Effective presentation of CERT Basic Training content.

Effective coaching and demonstration of skills in the classroom.

Practices to maximize learning.

Effective evaluation of CERT training participants.

The CERT Train-the-Trainer course is delivered at EMI sequentially during the same week with E0427, Community Emergency Response Team Program Manager. Participants who wish to take both courses must submit a separate application for each course. Although either course may be taken separately, EMI encourages participants to take both courses the same week.

Selection Criteria: Individuals who will serve as the Course Manager for the CERT Basic Training course and be CERT Basic Training course instructors.

This course enables emergency management personnel and response and recovery personnel from all political jurisdictions to more effectively understand, activate, implement, and use the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) system. This course introduces participants to the EMAC process and assists them in gaining familiarity and competency with the EMAC system so that when an event occurs that requires activation of the EMAC system, they know how to proceed, and what documentation and sources of information to use for guidance in order to maximize use of all available resources.

Selection Criteria: Emergency management personnel and response and recovery personnel from all political jurisdictions who can be legally deployed through the EMAC system; persons officially responsible for requesting and providing EMAC assistance; and those individuals desiring a more comprehensive working knowledge of the EMAC system.

-Completed the prerequisite courses-Completed recognized training to achieve qualifications in techniques of instruction and adult education methodologies-Must qualify as either a “Lead or Unit” instructor as noted in the NIMS Training Program, September 2011

The student must demonstrate a working knowledge of ICS principles. Theymust have worked as an Incident Commander, in a Command or General Staff position(s) on incidents, planned events, or exercises that went longer than one operational period or involved a written incident action plan and involved multipleagency and/or jurisdictionalcoordination.

The goal of E0451, Advanced I: Application of Advanced Individual Concepts in EM, the first course of the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy curriculum, is to provide EM professionals with critical skills that are needed to perform responsibilities such as program management oversight, effective communication, research resources, applicable laws, policy considerations, collaboration, and strategic thinking. Advanced I is designed to provide participants with the skills to manage EM programs and will be essential to building the foundation for collaboration by bringing EM professionals together to share their experiences and establish a network.

The E0451 Advanced I course provides knowledge in management qualities, management styles, strategic thinking, decision making, problem solving, evaluation, strategic planning, budgeting, vision and mission statements, research methodology, laws, policy considerations, program risk management, collaboration and communication, and change management, in addition to personal application and reflection. Sharing best practices, lessons learned, tools, and documentation provides a firm understanding of Federal, State, Tribal, territorial and local EM programs, as well as how those programs can be effectively leveraged to support community needs and requirements.

Selection Criteria: Participants are only admitted to the four course Academy series through the annual Advanced Academy selection process conducted in June each year. For more details, visit the EMPP Advanced Academy web page at http://training.fema.gov/empp/advanced.aspx .

The goal of E0452, Advanced II: Assessment of Teams in Professional Emergency Management, is to provide EM professionals with critical skills that are needed to be able to apply personal management styles in the context of EM. Advanced II will provide participants with the essential skills needed to lead EM programs at the mid-manager's level and will be essential to building the foundation for collaboration by bringing EM professionals together to share their experiences and establish a network. Advanced II will enable participants to gain knowledge necessary for understanding and developing themselves as mid-level managers, develop critical thinking and decision-making skills, develop personal influence and communication skills, work through resiliency, and motivate and manage others. In addition, Advanced II will provide an opportunity to explore the importance of ethics, values, and accountability. Sharing best practices, lessons learned, tools, and documentation to have a firm understanding of Federal, State, and local EM programs, as well as how those programs can be effectively leveraged to support State and local needs and requirements.

Selection Criteria: Participants are only admitted to the four course Academy series through the annual Advanced Academy selection process conducted in June each year. For more details, visit the EMPP Advanced Academy web page at http://training.fema.gov/empp/advanced.aspx .

The goal of E0453 Advanced III: Contemporary Issues in the Emergency Management Organization, is to provide EM professionals with critical skills that are needed to be able to perform a key and successful role within the EM organization. In this context, the EM “organization” is the entire community of professionals with whom the emergency manager works during emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery. This community includes immediate organizational staff, governmental peers and partners, and the network of public and private sector people and organizations that are engaged in supporting EM efforts. The goal of Advanced III is to provide students with the tools needed to be able to reach out to others to solve large, complex problems.

Participants will be varied in their skills. For example, an individual may be highly skilled at community outreach, but poor at building organizational support. A goal of course 3 is to approach these capabilities as skills that can be developed, and these skills will be honed in the exercises.

The EM “organization” is redefined in Advanced III as including not just the members of one’s own agency, but also “anyone with whom one works during emergency planning and emergency response,” i.e., “one’s network of colleagues and the people served.” While every jurisdiction’s definition of its organization is going to be different, the core competencies of EM professionals are ways to explore the issues that are common to organizations. Public advocacy and cultural competence are also addressed in Advanced III.

Selection Criteria: Participants are only admitted to the four course Academy series through the annual Advanced Academy selection process conducted in June each year. For more details, visit the EMPP Advanced Academy web page at http://training.fema.gov/empp/advanced.aspx .

E0454, Advanced IV: Advanced Concepts and Policy in the EM Profession, is the fourth and final course of the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy curriculum. The goal of Advanced IV is to provide EM professionals with critical skills that are needed to engage the challenges associated with the broader regional, national and international EM community. Advanced IV is designed to provide participants with an understanding of these broader issues and the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skill gained through the previous three courses and the research project work to the broader strategic EM arena.

Selection Criteria: Participants are only admitted to the four course Academy series through the annual Advanced Academy selection process conducted in June each year. For more details, visit the EMPP Advanced Academy web page at http://training.fema.gov/empp/advanced.aspx .

Instructor Training Certification (ITC) is a 5-day course that prepares emergency responders to deliver lectures and hands-on training in their local jurisdictions. The course is conducted in two phases: fundamental principles and applied principle. During the fundamental principles phase participants receive an overview of adult learning, task analysis, risk and hazard analysis, learning objectives and lesson plans, communication skills, instructional delivery and multimedia, testing and evaluations, and after action reviews. Then, during the applied principles phase, participants put these lessons into practice through a series of practice training sessions.

This course is a compilation of units from the E0411, Mass Care/Emergency Assistance for Field Operations and E0417, Mass Care/Emergency Assistance Shelter Field Guide training courses. Units are selected based on time allocated for training surge staff and the tasks they are to perform on the surge assignment.

This course trains Surge Capacity Force Specialists to expeditiously augment the FEMA disaster workforce as qualified employees, as described in the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, Public Law 109–295, Section 624.

Selection Criteria: Non-emergency FEMA staff who have been pre-identified to serve as Surge Capacity Force Surge Specialists during periods of extreme disaster activity.

This course introduces the skills and planning considerations required to manage large numbers of people who are not affiliated with an experienced relief organization, but who want to help in disasters. These helpers or “spontaneous volunteers” are generally well motivated and sincerely want to help, but if their efforts and resources are not coordinated effectively, they could be counterproductive, wasteful, and often place a strain on the disaster area.

This course provides the Individual and Households Program/Direct Housing Assistance and other essential FEMA staff with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage a Direct Housing assistance mission.

Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents (EMO) is a four-day course that prepares participants to effectively respond to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive (CBRNE) event or mass casualty incident (MCI). Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responders who are trained at the operations level may provide emergency medical care during a CBRNE incident or MCI. During the response phase, EMS responders perform lifesaving procedures in the warm and cold zones. In addition, they must use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) while providing casualty triage, treatment, and transport.

This course will train Individual Assistance (IA) Direct Housing Support Specialists in their role in supporting Direct Housing missions. The main topics of this course will include ensuring all Temporary Housing Unit transactions are complete and documented in Housing Operations Management Enterprise System (HOMES), maintaining documentation supporting the mission, performing recertifications, and understanding how to fulfill program administration activities.

This course guides participants in the use of strategic problem-solving skills that they can apply to various workplace situations that require analysis and/or planning as well as solving workplace disputes at the lowest level and at the earliest opportunity. The benefits of using strategic problem-solving include more efficient use of time and energy, a more satisfied workforce, and a better work environment.

Selection Criteria: FEMA employees, either managerial or staff, who must apply strategic problem-solving skills in various workplace situations that require analysis and/or planning as well as solving workplace disputes at the lowest level and at the earliest opportunity

To excel in the workplace and in the world, people must have command of sophisticated conflict management strategies. This course explores the skills of mediation that are applicable to dispute resolution in any workplace. Participants will practice successful problem-solving and collaboration techniques.

The teaching methodology will include interactive exercises, demonstrations, lectures, supervised role-plays, and group debriefings. Conflict resolution processes, principles, and theories will be presented.

The five different conflict coping styles will be discussed, and participants will identify their own style. All participants will understand how to reduce and transform conflict in the workplace.

This course is designed to provide participants with the tools and hands-on experience necessary to develop continuity exercises for their organization. This course begins by explaining the unique aspects of continuity exercise design. The course also provides instruction on how to develop a continuity exercise and allows participants to use what they learn to create continuity exercises in class.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations Programs, planning, and planning continuity exercises. This also includes information technology (IT) managers, training and exercise managers and planners, security managers, and emergency managers.

The purpose of this course is to provide continuity training for Program Managers at the Federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local levels of government. It is critical that Continuity Managers understand their role, responsibilities, and resources available to help them develop a viable continuity capability for their organization.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations.

This course is based on the guidance to the Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for developing Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plans and Programs. COOP Plans facilitate the performance of essential functions during any situation which may disrupt normal operations. This course provides the skills and knowledge to improve the overall quality and workability of COOP Plans.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a COOP Program.

This course is based on the guidance to the Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for developing Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plans and Programs. The purpose of the Resilient Accord Workshop is to increase Federal department and agency, state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictional continuity of operations awareness and discuss how to execute continuity operations resulting from a cyber security event.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a Continuity of Operations Program.

This course is based on the guidance to the Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for developing Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plans and Programs. The goal of the Determined Accord tabletop exercise is to assist in increasing a department or agency’s continuity readiness for a pandemic event. It also focuses on mitigating vulnerabilities during a continuity influenza pandemic outbreak and identifying gaps or weaknesses in pandemic planning in the organization of continuity plans, policies, and procedures.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a Continuity of Operations Program.

This course is based on the guidance to the Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for developing Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plans and Programs. The purpose of the Guardian Accord Workshop is to increase Federal department and agencies, state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions’ awareness about the importance of incorporating the specific risks of terrorism into continuity planning.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a Continuity of Operations Program.

This course is based on the guidance to the Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for developing Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plans and Programs. The Mission Essential Functions Workshop is to assist Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal levels of government continuity personnel to develop essential functions to support continuity of essential operations during and following a significant disruption to normal operations and reconstitution.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a COOP Program.

Information management is a critical component of an Individual Assistance (IA) operation, across all IA program areas. The goal of this course is to equip participants with the knowledge and tools to collect, record, disseminate, and manage information to provide the best possible situational awareness on all aspects of the IA program. Effective information management will result in proactive planning and decision-making, which provides the best service to disaster survivors.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for qualified Applicant Services Program Specialists with an open Task Book in one of the following positions: IA Reports Specialist, IA Planning Specialist or IA Liaison Specialist (inclusion of the IA Liaison Specialist is dependent on anticipated revisions to the FEMA Qualification System). IA Information Management Group Supervisors, Managers, Task Force Leaders, and Crew Leaders are encouraged to attend if space is available.

This 4-day course will provide tribal representatives with the information and strategies to develop or improve emergency management programs and systems within their tribal community. The course promotes the integration of all aspects of emergency management—from preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation—into the planning process. The course will provide the knowledge and skills needed to improve the overall response to emergencies regardless of hazard, size, or complexity, and improve the sustainability of their tribal community and better protect tribal citizens, lands, culture, and sovereignty.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes, but may not be limited to:

Tribal personnel who are responsible for overseeing the emergency planning and emergency management processes.

Tribal personnel who may be assigned to a leadership or support position in emergency management or operations.

Tribal council members, tribal leaders, and others who are responsible for the safety and security of the tribal population.

The course will be limited to federally or state-recognized tribal government representatives. Exceptions are authorized by the Course Manager only.

This 4-day course will provide tribal representatives with the information, skills, and strategies to improve overall emergency operations and make tribal governments more capable and self-sufficient during emergency operations. The course also promotes the integration of emergency operations across all functional lines in order to enhance the tribes’ overall response for all emergencies, regardless of hazard, size, or complexity.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes, but may not be limited to:

Tribal personnel who are responsible for overseeing the emergency planning and emergency management processes.

Tribal personnel who may be assigned to a leadership or support position in emergency management or operations.

Tribal council members, tribal leaders, and others who are responsible for the safety and security of the tribal population.

The course will be limited to federally or state-recognized tribal government representatives. Exceptions are authorized by the Course Manager only.

This 4-day course will provide tribal representatives with an understanding of mitigation opportunities and techniques, examples of mitigation success stories to reduce future losses from natural or other hazards, and an overview of available FEMA mitigation programs. Primary emphasis is on helping tribal emergency managers and planners recognize a successful planning process, identify planning team members, identify mitigation planning requirements and effective mitigation opportunities to improve the sustainability of their tribal community, and better protect tribal citizens, lands, culture, and sovereignty.

Selection Criteria: Tribal representatives involved in emergency management, planning, economic development, and tribal leaders/elected officials. The course will be limited to federally or state-recognized tribal government representatives. Exceptions are authorized by the Course Manager only.

This course provides participants an introduction to methods and theories used to develop and evaluate a training program effectively. Key topics include conducting a Performance and Needs Analysis, designing and developing courses, and evaluating a training program.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is composed of individuals assigned to curriculum design and development duties or positions.

EMI, partnering with our Nation's best and brightest, will convey cutting edge models and approaches to the core competencies areas of systems thinking for emergency managment, leading complex systems, methodologies to take ideas from inception to innovation, net centric visioning and designing, presenting for impact. The course is highly interactive and includes relevant case studies and realistic simulation exercises for emergency mangment executives.

Selection Criteria: Formal acceptance into the Executive Academy is required.

This course provides the emergency management leader current research and experiencial activities to refine the competency areas of critical thinking, applying decision making models and theory, continuous learning, emergency managment ethics, conflict management, leadership and collaboration and social intelligence. Participants to further develop critical thinking skills and novel problem-solving techniques when dealing with the complexity and pressures that are associated with emergency management executive-level decision-making, specifically applying these competency areas to the program final project.

Selection Criteria: Formal acceptance into the Executive Academy is required.

This course will cover the executive level core competencies of facilitating community risk ownership, civics/governance considerations, political skills and influence skills. Management and leadership behaviors, including policy and strategy-level decisionmaking, are emphasized throughout the week. Final culminating academy projects will be presented during this final course to high-level emergency management and/or homeland security officials.

Selection Criteria: Formal acceptance into the Executive Academy is required.

This course is designed for FEMA grantees and sub-grantees. It includes discussion and activities to improve the ability of FEMA grantees to administer Federal grant funding.

Selection Criteria: Participants must be FEMA grantees or sub-grantees ONLY. Invitations and course announcements are sent to grantees directly from the Grants Programs Directorate.

NOTE: NO STIPEND OR TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THIS COURSE. Students must be grant recipients, and are allowed to use Management and Administrative (M&A) grant funds for training with approval from Program Analyst (Headquarters or Region).

This course is designed to provide Acquisitions-specific disaster field operations training for members of the FEMA Acquisitions Cadre.

Selection Criteria: The course is available to personnel with the Incident Management FEMA Qualification System (FQS) titles of Contracting Specialist, Purchasing Specialist, Procurement Specialist, or Quality Assurance Specialist or any other FQS position maintained within a cadre other than the Acquisitions Cadre that requires the course as part of that position’s FQS Qualification Sheet training requirements. FEMA personnel who wish to attend that do not meet said requirements may be considered for attendance on an individual, program justified basis. Approval to attend this course is given by the Acquisitions Cadre Coordinator or by a designated member the Acquisitions Cadre Management team. The approval signature of one of the aforementioned is required.

This training will provide the knowledge and skills necessary for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Advisors to perform fully their ADR functions at a high level. The result will be a team of ADR professionals who are able to deploy to disaster sites; heighten awareness of the benefits of ADR; anticipate and prevent problems; provide conflict coaching, mediation, and facilitation services; resolve and reduce the number of complaints and conflicts; and help create an atmosphere of open communication.

Executive Orders (EOs) 11988 and 11990 on Floodplain Management and Wetlands Protection require Federal agencies to avoid actions in or adversely affecting floodplains and wetlands unless there is no practicable alternative. EO 11988 establishes an eight-step process that agencies should carry out as part of their decision-making on projects that have the potential to impact floodplains.

Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP and Non-EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.

This course serves as a training opportunity for FEMA personnel to identify and practice the essential core competencies required when performing the duties of the Planning Specialist (PLSP) in a Joint Field Office (JFO) Planning Section, and is aligned with FEMA Position Task Books and Qualification Sheets. The goal of this course is to provide new and entry-level planners with the foundational tools, skills, and knowledge to support the development of plans and products for each of the Planning Section Units (Documentation, Situation, Resources, and Planning Support). This course lays out required behaviors and activities and provides opportunities to practice and demonstrate skills needed at an incident or event. This course is one of the initial steps towards becoming a certified and qualified PLSL.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is all entry-level planners new to FEMA and/or hired into the PLSP position as Reservists. This includes personnel who may have some on-the-job experience but have not taken this introductory course.

Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires all Federal agencies to prevent or modify any project authorized, funded, or carried out by the Agency that is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered species or threatened species or their habitats. In order to determine if a proposed activity will jeopardize endangered or threatened species, FEMA must consult with either the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service. Compliance with ESA is a requirement for all FEMA-funded programs and activities. This course provides training on the implementation of ESA Section 7 within the context of FEMA’s programs and trains Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) staff on proper consultation procedures and strategies for streamlining compliance with ESA.

Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP and Non-EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.

This 4-hour course is designed to teach fundamental coaching and evaluation skills to FEMA Qualification System (FQS) Coach-Evaluators. The course limits lecture and emphasizes facilitated discussion, demonstration of desired behaviors and strategies, and skill practice with role-playing activities. The course goal is to familiarize participants with the responsibilities of the FQS Coach-Evaluator and to provide skill practice training for individuals who will serve as FQS Coach-Evaluators.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA personnel, identified by their cadre managers, who will serve as FQS Coach-Evaluators

This course provides participants with an understanding of partner coordination in disaster response and recovery, and with the knowledge and tools needed to work more effectively with state, local, tribal, volunteer agency, private sector, FEMA and other Federal agency partners as a unified team to conduct more effective disaster operations.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course includes professionals in the field of emergency management at the state, local, tribal, volunteer agency, private sector, FEMA and other Federal agency partner levels who are assigned responsibilities to participate inresponse and recovery. In order to maximize the benefit of participant discovery learning in the course activities, it is recommended that individual offerings of the course include a mix of these audience professional groups rather than just all participants from one group. For recruitment purposes, the recommended balance of target audience professional group representation in any given delivery of the course is no more than 50% of the participants from any one professional group (state, local, tribal, private sector, FEMA, etc.).

This course will train individuals assigned to the role of Applicant Services Program Specialist (ASPS) in disaster operations to provide face-to-face contact with disaster survivors, providing information about FEMA disaster assistance, and guiding them to other government and private organizations who offer disaster assistance-related services.

This course introduces the participants to the mission, roles, capabilities, and services of FEMA Disaster Emergency Communications (DEC) including coordination across the entire DEC mission space during incident operations, and requesting DEC capabilities and services to satisfy mission requirements.

This course is the foundation for the Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) workforce. It covers the role, responsibilities, and tasks associated with the FEMA Qualification System (FQS) Disaster Survivor Assistance Specialist.

The E/L0912 Community-Specific IEMCs are written to reflect the current threats and hazards facing the jurisdiction, and the organizations included in the jurisdiction’s emergency plans. Because the course is designed for whole communities, participation is not available for open-enrollment of invidual applicants. Participants are immersed in practical applications which support the preparedness of state and local governments to respond to an attack in the United States, similar to those carried out by well-armed, well-trained, and highly motivated individuals assaulting soft targets in the United States and around the world.

The IEMC supports the development of Core Capabilities and achievement of the National Preparedness Goal. Exercises are built to test the jurisdiction’s planned approach to specific hazards and to surface issues for which the IEMC participants may need to re-evaluate and develop corrective action plans.

Using current information on evolving terrorist tactics and procedures, an attack scenario is developed for the city and its surrounding jurisdictions’ plans and response capabilities. The scenario is designed to overwhelm the city’s resources and forms the basis for discussions throughout the course.

Participants will review existing preparedness, response, and interdiction plans, policies, and procedures related to a complex coordinated attack and identify gaps in plans, operational capabilities, response resources, and authorities; best practices and lessons learned will be shared from a variety of current events around the world.

Community-Specific IEMCs place emphasis on a specific jurisdiction’s risks, response capability, Core Capabilities, and short-term recovery issues. They are tailored to fit the jurisdictions and are based on a selected hazard scenario. Course methodologies include classroom instruction, group planning sessions, and exercises that allow for structured decision-making in a learning environment. A key outcome of this IEMC is to provide participants with the awareness and skills to carry out emergency plans, policies, and procedures related to disaster response and assist with making the transition from response activities to short-term recovery.

Situational Awareness (SA) and Common Operating Picture (COP) support the Communications and Information Management Component of the National Incident Management System. This intermediate-level course on SA and COP is designed to improve the skills, knowledge, and capabilities of individuals and organizations involved in domestic emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.

The NIMS ICS All-Hazards Position Specific (AHPS) Train the Trainer (TtT) course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively as under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s First Responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified COML; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a COML on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Incident Commander (IC) on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities fall into two categories: 1) responding to the incident and command needs of the incident, and 2) effectively fulfilling the position responsibilities of an IC on an All-Hazards ICS IMT. Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Bea fully qualified IC; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a IC on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course is designed for a Public Information Officer (PIO) assigned to an incident as a member of an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT) and local IMTs, as well as for the PIO assigned to an incident as an Assistant PIO in a variety of capacities. This course will help participants develop a strong set of core PIO skills and the ability to apply them within the context of an AHIMT. This course is also distinct from other information function courses in that it combines elements from both the basic and advanced functions to concentrate training on the fundamental duties and responsibilities of the PIO in an all-hazards environment. The course material does not assume or require experience as a PIO, but also is not a basic PIO course. Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as a fully qualified IC and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified PIO; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a PIO on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Safety Officer (SOFR) on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities fall into two categories: 1) responding to the incident and the safety needs of the incident, and 2) effectively fulfilling the position responsibilities of an SOFR on an AHIMT.

Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified SOFR; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a SOFR on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Liaison Officer on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified LOFR; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a LOFR on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Operations Section Chief (OSC) on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities fall into two categories: 1) responding to the incident and the command needs of the incident, and 2) effectively fulfilling the position responsibilities of an OSC on an AHIMT. Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified OSC; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a OSC on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

The course will provide local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Division/Group Supervisor on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). The course walks participants through general information, including an overview of the Operations Section and information on incident mobilization, initial situational awareness, and unit management. It also provides detailed instruction on responding to the incident and the command needs of the incident, and emphasizes the importance of risk management and safety considerations.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Planning Section Chief on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities fall into two categories: 1) managing the planning cycle, and 2) tracking resources and incident status. Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified PSC; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a PSC on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course helps participants establish the essential core competencies required for performing the duties of the Situation Unit Leader (SITL) in an all-hazards incident. This course addresses all responsibilities appropriate to an SITL operating in a local- or state-level All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities include processing information and intelligence and developing displays. The course is an instructor-led training that supports learning through discussion, lecture, and active participation in multiple exercises. By requiring participants to bring an SITL Kit to the instruction, the course provides a realistic, hands-on approach to mastering the skills of an SITL.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course provides an overview of Unit Leader responsibilities, the Planning Section, and the planning process to contextualize the Resources Unit for participants unfamiliar with the planning process or the Incident Command System. It then explores specific Resources Unit Leader functions and responsibilities including resource tracking systems, operational planning, and resource products/outputs. The Status/Check-in and Demobilization functions are covered to provide participants with the knowledge to perform those duties if necessary.Exercises/simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 All-Hazards Incident Management Teams, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Logistics Section Chief on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities fall into two categories: responding to the incident and effectively fulfilling the position responsibilities of a Logistics Section Chief on an AHIMT. Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively as under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified LSC; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a LSC on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course helps participants establish the essential core competencies required for performing the duties of the Communications Unit Leader (COML) in an all-hazards incident. This course addresses all responsibilities appropriate to a COML operating in a local- or state-level All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities include the collection, processing, and dissemination as needed to facilitate Operations of Command, General Staff, and Unit Leaders within the confines of a Type 3 AHIMT. The course is an instructor-led training that supports learning through discussion, lecture, and active participation in multiple exercises.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course helps participants establish the essential core competencies required for performing the duties of the Supply Unit Leader (SPUL) in an all-hazards incident. By requiring participants to bring jurisdiction-specific information to the instruction, the course provides a realistic, hands-on approach to mastering the skills of an SPUL organized by the fundamental steps of the ordering process. Participants identify information required for ordering, as well as complete required forms and documentation related to ordering, and anticipate ordering and supply needs for the incident. In addition to the ordering process, the course discusses mobilization, setting up and managing the Supply Unit, and demobilization.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 All-Hazards Incident Management Teams, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

The course will help participants establish the essential core competencies required for performing the duties of the Facilities Unit Leader (FACL) in an all-hazards incident. The course walks participants through general information, including an overview of the Logistics Section and information on incident mobilization, initial situational awareness, and unit management. It also provides detailed instruction in setting up and maintaining incident facilities, including facilities infrastructure, services, layout, and security. Each unit contains a discussion-based exercise and there is a capstone tabletop exercise at the end of the course to give participants hands-on practice functioning as an FACL.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course provides local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Finance/Administration Section Chief on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). These responsibilities include managing the Finance/ Administration Section personnel and managing the finances and administrative responsibilities during an incident.

Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively as under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified FASC; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a FASC on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

The Finance/Administration Unit Leader (FAUL) course will help participants establish the essential core competencies required for performing the duties of the Finance/Administration Unit Leader in an all-hazards incident. The course is designed to enable participants to perform as any of the four FAULs (Time Unit Leader, Procurement Unit Leader, Compensation and Claims Unit Leader, Cost Unit Leader). Participants will learn information that is applicable across all four positions, such as unit setup and management, information gathering, and interactions.

Complex experiential exercises and discussions will afford participants the opportunity to act as each unit leader while connecting all information learned back to real-world application.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 All-Hazards Incident Management Teams, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified SITL; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a SITL on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This is an introductory course designed to acclimate newly hired FEMA Security Specialists to the responsibilities of their position within a Joint Field Office. Topics include workplace violence, identity theft, video surveillance systems, security operations, security assessments, reports and plans, physical and personnel security, and an overview on the security identification badging and electronic fingerprinting systems.

Selection Criteria: Newly hired FEMA Security Specialists. All nominations will be submitted through the National Security Cadre Manager.

This is a high-level course designed specifically for FEMA Security Managers who will be trained on a yearly basis on updated policies and procedures regarding Badging, Fingerprinting, Credentialing, Automated External Defibrillation/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/First Aid/Blood Borne Pathogen, Agency Technical Representation, and any other certifications for which they are currently responsible.

Selection Criteria: Security Managers who belong to the FEMA Security Cadre. All nominations will be submitted through the National Security Cadre Manager.

The course will provide local- and state-level emergency responders with a robust understanding of the duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective Task Force/Strike Team Leader on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT). The course walks participants through general information, including an overview of the Operations Section and information on incident mobilization, initial situational awareness, and unit management. It also provides detailed instruction on responding to the incident and the command needs of the incident, as well as emphasizing the importance of risk management and safety considerations.

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

The Air Support Group Supervisor (ASGS) course is intended to provide local- and state-level emergency responders with an overview of key duties and responsibilities of an ASGS in a Type 3 All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT).

Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.

This course is intended to familiarize participants with the basic concepts of air operations as associated with deployment through the Air Operations Branch of an Incident Management Team (IMT) and/or through the NIMS/ICS system.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for personnel who are members of All-Hazards Incident Management Teams, or those who are seeking credentials/certification in those positions.

This course provides training for local communities to prepare for and manage the Mass Care/Emergency Assistance (MC/EA) functions effectively. The goal is to prepare community agencies, organizations, and businesses to work together in coordination with Emergency Management and traditional MC providers to plan and provide MC/EA services to those affected by disaster.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for MC coordinators, management staff, non-governmental organization leaders, private sector, and other emergency management staff that are a part of the team and have a responsibility for effective MC/EA preparedness and response.

There are several options for the composition of a class. One is the State MC Coordinator and his/her team; a local MC Coordinator and his/her team; or a State MC Coordinator and local MC Coordinators from the state.

The course provides an opportunity for emergency management and response personnel to begin developing an Incident Command System (ICS)/Emergency Operations Center (EOC) interface for their communities. The course reviews ICS and EOC characteristics, responsibilities and functions and depends heavily on activities and group discussions to formulate an interface. This course works best when delivered to Incident Command System and Emergency Operations Center personnel from the same community.

Selection Criteria: The intended audience(s) are federal, state, tribal, territorial, local level, private industry, volunteer and nongovernmental emergency management personnel who are active in a community’s ICS and EOC activities. This course works best when delivered to combined audience of ICS and EOC personnel. The materials were developed with the assumption that audience members may have little or no actual experience as a member of an Incident Command Post staff or an EOC Staff.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with various aspects of the floodplain manager’s job. Four key roles will be examined and discussed: Regulator, Coordinator, Educator, and Planner. These roles impact the floodplain manager’s job and have broad-reaching impacts in the community.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to review Section 60.3 of Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and other rules and regulations that impact floodplain management. Participants will be led through discussions and interactive exercises that explore the details of the interpretations of the various regulations. Topics covered include: floodway and encroachment requirements; new residential building requirements; development in approximate A Zones; accessory and agricultural buildings; anchoring fuel storage tanks; regulating recreational vehicles; environmental and historical regulations; and typical compliance problems.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the Letter of Map Change (LOMC) process and forms and actions necessary to get LOMC reviewed and approved or denied. Letters of Map Amendment, Letters of Map Amendment based on Fill, Letters of Map Revision, Conditional Letters of Map Revision, and other topics will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

Selection Criteria: This course has in-depth discussion of the topics and exercises to help floodplain managers prepare for post-disaster activities and is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This 3- to 4-hour course will provide state and local elected officials, emergency managers, and other public officials with an understanding of how these volunteer communication groups can help in supplementing telecommunication and warning systems.

Selection Criteria: State and local elected officials, emergency managers, and other public officials; amateur radio operators.

This 45-minute module provides training for volunteers, emergency management, and emergency responder personnel on flood response techniques using sandbags and other materials. This course may be used to train key personnel prior to a flood emergency on the basic procedures and methods used to construct a sandbag levee or may be used to train an expedient citizen work force for flood control operations.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for the course will include volunteers, emergency management personnel, and emergency responder personnel who are preparing to participate in a flood response effort.

This course provides training for local and state emergency managers who respond to hazardous weather events, while promoting partnership and coordination between the National Weather Service (NWS) and emergency managers. The goal of this course is to enhance emergency managers’ ability to recognize potentially hazardous weather and flooding situations so they are equipped to plan appropriately and to coordinate effective responses.

Selection Criteria: The audience for the course will encompass primarily the following professional groups:

Local emergency managers (i.e., county, city, parish, or other jurisdiction)

This course is the latest in the hazardous weather series of courses produced in partnership with the National Weather Service (NWS). Every year, the United States experiences more severe weather than any other country in the world. In order to reduce deaths, injuries, and property losses, emergency managers must work closely with the NWS and the news media to provide effective warnings that can be received and understood by people at risk. This course is intended to help facilitate that process. Course topics include: The Social Dimensions of Warning Response; Developing Effective Warning Messages; Developing an Effective Community Warning Process; and Working with the News Media to Create a Weather Warning Partnership. In addition to lecture and discussion, the course includes case studies, exercises, and an opportunity for interaction with representatives of the local news media.

This course is designed to train participants to effectively use FEMA P-55, Coastal Construction Manual (Fourth Edition). The course and publication provide a comprehensive approach to planning, siting, designing, constructing, and maintaining homes in the coastal environment.

The course contains in-depth descriptions of design, construction, and maintenance practices that, when followed, will increase the durability of residential buildings in the harsh coastal environment and reduce economic losses associated with coastal natural disasters.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

This course provides engineering and economic guidance to architects, engineers, and local code enforcement officials in retrofitting existing 1- to 4-family residential structures situated in flood-prone areas. The retrofitting measures presented are creative, practical, compliant with applicable floodplain regulations, and satisfactory to most homeowners.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

This advanced floodplain management course is a dynamic and interactive instruction that covers the following four topics in detail:

Placement of Manufactured Homes and Recreational Vehicles in the Floodplain (1 day).

National Flood Insurance Program Flood Insurance Principles for the Floodplain Manager (1 day).

Higher Standards in Floodplain Management (1 day).

Hydrology and Hydraulics for the Floodplain Manager (1 day).

Each topic is designed to be discussed and reviewed in greater detail than the basic course. Developed and real-life scenarios will be examined and activities will be conducted in each section to make sure participants not only understand the rules and regulations but also why they are in place and how to apply them in the particular topic areas. This course is activity-rich and participants can expect to be engaged throughout the course.

Selection Criteria: Certified floodplain managers or community officials with 2 years of full-time floodplain management experience. Federal, state, local, and tribal officials will take precedence.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the concept of higher standards and implementation of higher standards specifically related to freeboard, critical facilities, detailed base flood elevation determinations in approximate A zone areas, subdivision requirements, prohibition of fill, and enclosure limitations. The No-Adverse Impact concept is examined. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the requirements for manufactured homes and recreational vehicles under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The 2008 changes in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rules related to manufactured home installation and inspection are discussed in detail. The analysis of the site review process, foundation design, installation concerns, and enforcement of NFIP regulations and HUD regulations, and consideration of recreational vehicles in the floodplain are also discussed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the flood insurance aspects of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The basics of flood insurance backed by the NFIP, including NFIP coverage, rating, NFIP policy information, rate and rule changes, and opportunities for flood insurance outreach, will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the hydrology and hydraulics aspects of the Flood Insurance Studies (FISs) prepared under the National Flood Insurance Program. The basics of both hydrology and hydraulics (H&H) are discussed as well as the fundamentals of the FIS and Flood Insurance Rate Map. The flood profiles, regulatory floodways, special considerations in the mapping process, and FIS interpretation are also discussed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This advanced floodplain management course is a dynamic and interactive instruction that covers the following five topics in detail:

Floodway Standards (1 day)

Disconnects between National Flood Insurance Program Regulations and Insurance (1 day)

Common Noncompliance Issues (½ day)

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) (½ day)

Substantial Improvement/Substantial Damage (1 day)

Each topic is designed to be discussed and reviewed in greater detail than the basic course. Developed and real-life scenarios will be examined and activities will be conducted in each section to make sure participants not only understand the rules and regulations but also why they are in place and how to apply them in the particular topic areas. This course is activity-rich and participants can expect to be engaged throughout the course.

Selection Criteria: Certified floodplain managers or community officials with 2 years of full-time floodplain management experience. Federal, state, local, and tribal officials will take precedence.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with floodway concept and purpose, higher floodway standards, regulatory requirements, methods to comply with no-rise certification requirements, and map change options for floodway modifications. Other topics will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

Disconnects Between the National Flood Insurance Program Regulations and Insurance

Indirect

EMI

8.0

Emergency Management, Governmental Administrative, Public Works

Long-term Vulnerability Reduction

Mitigation

EMI

This course is designed to allow participants to identify basic rating elements and explain the difference between lowest floor and base flood.

Compliance and rating of enclosures will be discussed and issues with A zones without base flood elevations will be identified. The benefits and implications of dry floodproofing and other compliance factors affecting insurance rates will be described. Resources for flood insurance outreach and updates will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with common floodplain management compliance issues. Administration, enforcement, and effective messaging to achieve compliance will be discussed. Ways to eliminate noncompliance and resources to resolve noncompliance issues will be identified. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the substantial improvement and substantial damage regulations under the NFIP. Roles and responsibilities, administration and enforcement, the significance of making determination and other topics will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

The course is designed to strengthen the abilities of local jurisdictions to successfully prepare for and handle volunteer and donations management issues that may arise. The course content and activities may also serve as a template, thereby enhancing uniformity in addressing areas of donated unsolicited goods, unaffiliated volunteers, and undesignated cash. This training also provides information regarding the state’s volunteer and donations management responsibilities, which are designed to help build relationships between government and non-governmental organizations.

Selection Criteria: Local emergency managers and representatives of voluntary organizations

This course provides training for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). This course expands upon information covered in the ICS 100 and ICS 200 courses.

Selection Criteria: Individuals who may assume a supervisory role in incidents. Note: During a Type 3 incident, some or all of the Command and General Staff positions may be activated, as well as Division/Group Supervisor and/or Unit Leader level positions. These incidents may extend into multiple operational periods.

This 12-hour course provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed to design and implement an evacuation and re-entry plan for their jurisdictions. It uses a community’s vulnerability analysis and evacuation plan. It also addresses evacuation behavior and recommends methods to make evacuation and re-entry more efficient. This course does not address the decision to evacuate or re-enter.

Selection Criteria: The persons responsible for planning, implementing, and carrying out evacuations within a jurisdiction. This includes, but is not limited to, state and local government emergency program managers, emergency planners, and response personnel.

This course is for emergency managers, public works officials, levee district representatives, and others responsible for planning, preparing, and managing the response to a flood. Using a combination of lectures, discussions, activities, and exercises, the course will take participants through the complete process from well before the flood to clean-up afterwards. Officials from every community at risk of flooding should take this training.

While this training emphasizes how to conduct a flood fight, it provides information to help communities decide if a flood fight is possible and worth the effort and cost. Diagrams with materials lists and equipment and labor requirements to construct various types of temporary flood protection can be used to help determine if there is enough time and resources to protect the community. If the whole community cannot be protected, then officials must decide where to concentrate their efforts to protect some areas and/or evacuate and relocate what they can. If a flood fight is undertaken, it should be done the right way or the effort will be wasted. Instructors should be experienced in flood fighting.

It is recommended that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers be part of the instructional team to discuss the methods and techniques it will use in your region and to explain what assistance it may be able to provide.

This course provides schools with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to refine or develop an all-hazards school Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and to identify how to train and exercise the school EOP. The course follows the guidance set forth in the FEMA Comprehensive Preparedness Guide, CPG 101, for developing an EOP and explains how to utilize the National Incident Management System as the foundation for planning and building partnerships with outside agencies such as law enforcement, fire, and emergency management.

In an optional exercise day, this course provides participants with an opportunity to conduct and design a tabletop exercise using Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) guidelines.

This 2-hour overview of emergency planning serves as a briefing for executives of institutions of higher education (IHEs). It provides them with insights into multi-hazard emergency planning and their role in protecting lives, property, and operations. The course consists of seven modules which can be delivered independently so that executives can tailor it to fit their schedules and needs. The seven modules are:

This course is designed to enable the non-technical emergency worker to acquire skills in the use of mitigation. The course provides training in how to perform mitigation activities fundamental to reducing and eliminating long-term risk from hazards. It addresses the important roles of the emergency program manager (or other local government representative) in mitigation: motivator, coordinator, and monitor in local implementation of the National Mitigation Strategy.

Selection Criteria: State, local, and tribal government emergency program managers, other emergency management staff, and other local government employees responsible for mitigation. The secondary audience includes Federal emergency management personnel and employees of federal, state, and local governments who work in the emergency management field.

ICS 400: Advanced Incident Command System for Command and General Staff-Complex Incidents

Mobile/Non-Resident, Residential, Indirect

EMI

15.0

Emergency Management

Operational Coordination

Respond, Recover

EMI

This course provides training for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). This course expands upon information covered in ICS 100 through ICS 300 courses, which are prerequisites for the ICS 400 course.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is senior personnel who are expected to perform in a management capacity in an Area Command or Multi-Agency Coordination Entity.

This course produces competent instructors for the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Training course.

Selection Criteria: People who will serve as the Course Manager for the CERT Basic Training course and people who will be CERT Basic Training course instructors in any capacity.

Note: Individuals who conduct only one or two of the units may do so without taking the CERT TTT course. However, the CERT TTT course would give them a necessary overview of the CERT Basic Training course as well as improve their instructional skills.

This course will prepare school staff and administrators for an earthquake at their school location. The course is designed to describe the effects of an earthquake; explain how to mitigate those effects; state the key elements of an earthquake plan for preparedness, response, and recovery; and outline the procedures for training and exercises related to that emergency plan.

This course introduces the skills and planning considerations required to manage large numbers of people who are not affiliated with an experienced relief organization, but who want to help in disasters. These helpers or “spontaneous volunteers” are generally well motivated and sincerely want to help, but if their efforts and resources are not coordinated effectively, they could be counterproductive, wasteful, and often place a strain on the disaster area.

The purpose of this course is to provide continuity training for Program Managers at the Federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local levels of government. It is critical that Continuity Managers understand their role, responsibilities, and resources available to help them develop a viable continuity capability for their organization.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations.

This course will equip local officials with the knowledge, understanding, and skills they need to be able to conduct rapid and effective needs and damage assessments in order to save lives and protect property.

Selection Criteria: State and local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure.

This course provides information and resources that will enable participants to plan an effective Damage Assessment Program and conduct rapid and effective damage assessments in order to save lives, protect property and the environment, and begin the process of recovery and mitigation.

Selection Criteria: Local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure.

This course provides an introduction to emergency management and the Integrated Emergency Management System, including an in-depth look at the mission areas of emergency management as they are implemented in a comprehensive emergency management program. The course consists of text, illustrations, diagrams, and figures.

Selection Criteria: The goal of this course is to acquaint new personnel with the position of the emergency manager, including history and underlying principles of emergency management, key areas of emphasis, the emergency manager’s roles and responsibilities, and tips for getting started.

This Independent Study course is intended to provide a general introduction to hazardous materials that can serve as a foundation for more specific studies in the future. This course does not meet hazardous materials response requirements identified in HAZWOPER standard—29CFR1910.120(q)(6)(i). The course has five units. No prior knowledge of the subject is required or assumed.

Building for the Earthquakes of Tomorrow: Complying with Executive Order 12699

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

10.0

Emergency Management, Governmental Administrative, Public Works

Infrastructure Systems

Mitigation

EMI

This course provides the participant with the background necessary to understand the effects of Executive Order (EO) 12699, signed by President Bush in 1990. In the wake of the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 1989, this EO requires all federally owned, leased, or financed new buildings to comply with strict earthquake building design set forth in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Plan (NEHRP) Recommended Building Provisions. The NEHRP has provided a base for all national building codes for seismic design.

The course is a non-technical discussion of earthquakes, building design, and the requirements of the EO. It is for local officials including mayors, city managers and commissioners, local council persons, building inspectors, zoning officials, building designers, and others concerned with this topic. The materials for this course can NOT be downloaded.

Selection Criteria: Building officials, planners, and local government leaders

This 4-hour web-based course will provide public safety agency personnel with information related to pre-event planning, forming the Planning Team, event hazard analysis, and responding to incidents during special events in their community. Though relevant special events statutes/ordinances and codes must be considered by public safety agency personnel engaged in special event planning, an extensive job aid manual is included in the course and available for download on the course web site.

This course is a discussion-based course, focused on the development of an Emergency/Incident Action Plan. Participants are encouraged to bring a scenario they are real-world planning in their community and complete most of the required documents during the course.

Selection Criteria: Emergency management planners and other emergency management officials who deal with special or planned events

This Guide was developed to support the Points of Distribution (PODs) overview video and provide an in-depth look into the Planning, Operations, and Demobilization stages of a POD mission. The lessons detail the staffing and procedures any state will need to plan for, execute, and shut down POD operations. The Guide also includes key lessons such as safety, equipment, and resources accountability, and informs the reader about the “Adopt a POD” program being used by the State of Washington.

Selection Criteria: Primarily logistics personnel, state National Guard, and other emergency management staff

This course provides an overview of all field logistics functions and organizational relationships within logistics (roles, responsibilities, accountability). The participant will gain a baseline knowledge of the standard practices for FEMA Logistics operations from initial Presidential disaster declaration to closeout of FEMA field offices.

Selection Criteria: All new Logistics hires and Logistics staff that work in the field offices. Also, all FEMA cadres, governmental (state, local, tribal), and private sector partners who interface with FEMA Logistics during disaster response and recovery.

Public information consists of the processes, procedures and systems to communicate timely, accurate and accessible information to affected audiences. Armed with good information, people are better able to make good decisions and, by doing so, contribute to the overall response goal of saving lives and protecting property. Personnel tasked with gathering, verifying, coordinating and disseminating public information at the federal, state, tribal, local and territorial levels bear this considerable responsibility concurrently with other job assignments. These PIOs must be provided with the opportunity to learn and practice the skills they will use on the job.

The Public Information Officer Awareness Course is designed to familiarize participants with the concepts underlying the PIO role. This course can provide a basic understanding of the PIO function for those new to the position. Additionally, it can provide those in Executive Level roles the necessary knowledge of PIO roles and responsibilities during an emergency.

This is the first in the Public Information Training Series.

This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other, enhancing participants’ skills further at each level. This course uses Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.

The goal of this awareness course is to provide an orientation to the public information function and the role of the PIO in the public safety/emergency management environment.

This course is equivalent to the classroom G0289 course which may be offered through state emergency management training organizations.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new or less experienced state, local, tribal and territorial PIOs or those who have this role as a secondary function.

This course is part of the comprehensive training program for the FEMA egrants system. It is the first in a series of Independent Study (IS) courses for the eGrants and will address the functions in the eGrants External System used by Subapplicants.

This course is part of the comprehensive training program for the FEMA eGrants system. This course is the second in the series of Independent Study (IS) courses for eGrants and will address the functions in the eGrants External System used by Applicants.

This course is part of the comprehensive training program for the FEMA egrants system. It is the third in a series of Independent Study (IS) courses for the eGrants and will address the functions in the eGrants Internal System used by FEMA Regional and Headquarters (HQ) staff to adminster the Hazard Mitigation (HMA) grant programs.

This course covers the steps needed to help childcare sites prepare for incidents to ensure the safety of the children at their site. Childcare providers must have plans and procedures to keep children safe from everyday hazards and to respond and recover when an emergency happens.This course provides childcare providers, of all sizes and with responsibility for children of all ages, with the knowledge and tools to analyze the hazards and threats at the site, to develop a plan to address these hazards and threats, and to implement processes to update and practice the emergency plan.

The topics addressed in this course include: knowing your hazards, developing a plan, and testing and updating your plan.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for childcare providers of all sizes and for all age children, including, but not limited to, home childcare sites, childcare facilities, nursery schools, camps, scouts, sports programs, faith-based programs, and after-school programs. However, anyone with a personal or professional interest in childcare site preparedness is welcome to participate. Teachers, camp counselors, parents, volunteers, scout leaders, and coaches alike will find useful information in this course.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates that all Federal employers who supervise or manage employees have the ability to provide a safe and healthful work place for all FEMA personnel. This course provides the training needed to comply with OSHA regulations for supervisors and managers of FEMA staff.

Selection Criteria: Any FEMA personnel placed in the role of supervising or managing other FEMA personnel

Social media is a new technology that not only allows for another channel of broadcasting messages to the public, but also allows for two-way communication between emergency managers and major stakeholder groups. Increasingly, the public is turning to social media technologies to obtain up-to-date information during emergencies and to share data about the disaster in the form of geo data, text, pictures, video, or a combination of these media. Social media also can allow for greater situational awareness for emergency responders. While social media allows for many opportunities to engage in an effective conversation with stakeholders, it also holds many challenges for emergency managers.

This course provides participants with best practices including tools, techniques, and a basic roadmap to build capabilities in the use of social media technologies in their own emergency management organizations (state, local, tribal) in order to further their emergency response missions.

This course will provide participants with an overview of the U.S. military resources potentially available to assist civilian authorities, and the procedures for obtaining and integrating military resources into disaster response and recovery operations.

The goal is to provide emergency managers at every jurisdictional level an overview of military resources; their capabilities and limitations; and how to access and integrate them in their respective jurisdiction’s disaster response and recovery operations in order to save lives, mitigate human suffering, and mitigate significant property and/or environmental damage.

Selection Criteria: This course is developed in a flexible delivery format. A facilitator’s guide and visuals are available for delivery in a classroom setting.

ICS 100, Introduction to the Incident Command System, introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS).The Emergency Management Institute developed its ICS courses collaboratively with:

National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)

U.S. Department of Agriculture

United States Fire Administration’s National Fire Programs Branch

Selection Criteria: The intended audience(s) are personnel involved with emergency planning, response, or recovery efforts. This includes fire, law enforcement, and emergency medical personnel as well as a large variety of disciplines including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), federal workers, health care workers, higher education, law enforcement, public works, and schools.

Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS 100) for Higher Education

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

3.0

Other

Operational Coordination

Prevent, Protect

EMI

This course introduces the ICS and provides the foundation for higher-level ICS training. It is a comprehensive introduction to ICS tailored for higher education situations. Case studies, scenarios, and video clips of people and places that have been involved in campus emergency planning are integrated into the course.

The Tank Car Specialist Course is designed to address specific fundamentals and skills associated with an emergency response to a rail surface transportation incident involving HazMat/WMD. The TCS course will provide technical knowledge pertaining to tank cars, including damage assessment, oversight for product removal, and movement of damaged tank and other rail cars present. They will conduct site assessments of incidents, damage assessments of the containers, and will conduct product removal using different transfer techniques on the various DOT containers used in rail transportation. The skills acquired at this specialty course are above and beyond that of a HazMat/WMD techniciThe Tank Car Specialist Course is designed to address specific fundamentals and skills associated with an emergency response to a rail surface transportation incident involving HazMat/WMD. The TCS course will provide technical knowledge pertaining to tank cars, including damage assessment, oversight for product removal, and movement of damaged tank and other rail cars present. They will conduct site assessments of incidents, damage assessments of the containers, and will conduct product removal using different transfer techniques on the various DOT containers used in rail transportation. The skills acquired at this specialty course are above and beyond that of a HazMat/WMD technician. The TCS course provides technical information and includes extensive hands-on practice of incident actions on full-scale scenario-based rail HazMat/WMD surface transportation incidents.

This course introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher-level ICS training. It is a comprehensive introduction to ICS tailored for school situations. Case studies, scenarios, and video clips of people and places that have been involved in school emergency planning are integrated into the course.

This course is designed to help prepare participants for deployment to a domestic incident. Responding to incidents requires that we must be ready, willing, and able to deploy at a moment’s notice. This course provides personnel with practical tips and advice for incident deployment.

This course is designed to help prepare participants for deployment as a FEMA response partner to a domestic incident. Responding to incidents requires that we must be ready, willing, and able to deploy at a moment’s notice. This course provides personnel with practical tips and advice for incident deployment.

This course prepares participants to successfully assume the role and responsibilities of a Geospatial Information System (GIS) Specialist (GISP) during a disaster situation. As they complete this course, participants will learn how to use their GIS skills to support other members of a Joint Field Office Disaster Response and Recovery Team and successfully meet the responsibilities assigned to them. Participants will also learn what types of products need to be produced and what procedures must be followed to ensure that products are produced correctly and in a timely manner.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed primarily for GIS Specialists newly employed with FEMA or other emergency response organizations. Students should already have a basic working knowledge of standard GIS software applications.

This course introduces the basics of emergency management exercises. It also builds a foundation for subsequent exercise courses, which provide the specifics of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program and the National Standard Exercise Curriculum.

IS0120.a, An Introduction to Exercises, replaces IS0120, An Orientation to Community Disaster Exercises.

This course is a new offering that introduces the basics of emergency management exercise evaluation and improvement planning. It also provides the foundation for exercise evaluation concepts and practices as identified in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program.

This course provides guidance to the building sciences community working for public and private institutions, including Continuity of Operations (COOP) planners/managers, building officials, etc. It presents tools to help decision-makers assess the performance of their buildings against terrorist threats and to make recommendations. Decision-makers will decide which types of threats they wish to protect against and then determine their level of risk against each threat. Those decision-makers who consider their buildings to be at high risk can use this guidance as necessary.

This coursereviews the Incident Command System (ICS), provides the context for ICS within initial response, and supports higher level ICS training. This course provides training on, and resources for, personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within ICS. The Emergency Management Institute developed its ICS courses collaboratively with:

This is a web-based training course with a flexible delivery format to include stand-alone modules as needed on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Incident Command System (ICS). The purpose of this course is to provide first responders with an opportunity to reinforce their knowledge of and skill in using the standard ICS forms during the Incident Action Planning process for significant incidents or events.

Selection Criteria: Emergency management and response personnel who may be called upon to function in a Command, General Staff, or Unit Leader position during a significant incident or event, and who may be called upon to help prepare some portion of the Incident Action Plan.

The goal of this course is to introduce you to the fundamentals of emergency management. It presents emergency management as an integrated system with resources and capabilities networked together to address all hazards.

Being able to lead others - to motivate them to commit their energies and expertise to achieving the shared mission and goals of the emergency management system - is a vital part of every emergency manager, planner, and responder's job. This course is designed to improve participants' leadership and influence skills. It addresses:

Being able to make decisions and solve problems effectively is a necessary part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This course is designed to improve participants’ decision-making skills. It addresses:

Being able to communicate effectively is a necessary and vital part of the job for every emergency manager, planner, and responder. This course is designed to improve your communication skills. It addresses:

This course provides basic information on the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). It provides authorized public safety officials with: increased awareness of the benefits of using IPAWS for effective public warnings; skills to draft more appropriate, effective, and accessible warning messages; and best practices in the effective use of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) to reach all members of their communities.

Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) for the American Public

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

0.5

Emergency Management, Citizen/Community Volunteer

Public Information and Warning

Respond, Mitigation

EMI

The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Program Management Office designed this course to provide the American public with an introduction to IPAWS. It identifies the key features and benefits of IPAWS and the authorities responsible for sending alert and warning messages. It also describes the actions you can take before and during an emergency to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) for Alerting Authorities

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

1.5

Emergency Management

Public Information and Warning

Respond, Mitigation

EMI

The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Program Management Office designed this course to provide Alerting Authorities with an increased awareness about Collaborative Operating Groups (COGs)—how they are issued, their structure, their capabilities, and their responsibilities, and skills to draft more appropriate, effective, and accessible warning messages using best practices in alerting.

This interactive computer-based course provides an overview of FEMA’s Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) compliance responsibilities and is an Independent Study alternative to the 4-day E0253, Introduction to Environmental and Historic Preservation Compliance course, held at EMI or in the regional offices. The course includes interactive knowledge checks, case studies, and resource materials.

This course provides emergency managers and other decision-makers with background information about weather, natural hazards, and preparedness. It offers web-based content designed to address topics covered in the multi-day Hazardous Weather and Flood Preparedness course offered by FEMA and the National Weather Service (NWS). The module also complements other onsite courses by those agencies. This training module covers:

This course serves as an overview of fundamental Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) concepts and theory and is the framework and prerequisite for the classroom, field, or facilitated distance learning BCA course.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is Federal, state, local, and tribal hazard mitigation staff; applicants/grantees; subapplicants/subgrantees; and personnel who are involved in the grant application development process and provide technical assistance.

This course serves as an overview of the contents of the revised FEMA Publication 259, Engineering Principles and Practices for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

This course will enable learners to successfully use the Substantial Damage Estimator (SDE) 2.0 tool. Successful use is defined as accurately populating the electronic forms within the tool; saving individual-structure and community-wide data; running all reports available in the tool; and importing and exporting data to other formats, such as Excel. Learners must download, install, and use the SDE 2.0 software to complete the course.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for Federal, state, and local staff that will use the SDE 2.0 tool to comply with floodplain management regulations and/or to identify opportunities for flood hazard mitigation.

This course is intended to educate the reader about the vital role that voluntary organizations play as key partners in providing disaster relief services throughout the entire emergency management cycle (i.e., mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery). It can be downloaded from the Independent Study web site and the test can be completed and submitted online.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, tribal, and local emergency managers, members of voluntary organizations, and the general public who are involved in emergency management activities and require an understanding of the roles of voluntary organizations throughout the disaster cycle.

This course is intended to provide basic training on the concept of the Resource Request and Mission Assignment (MA) process beginning with the Request for Federal Assistance to MA issuance, execution, billing, and closeout.

Selection Criteria: The course is open to all FEMA/DHS, state, local, tribal, and other Federal agency program and financial staff who have a role or interest in the MA process.

Community Emergency Response Team Supplemental Training: The Incident Command System

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

2.0

Emergency Management

Operational Coordination

Respond, Recover, Mitigation

EMI

The Incident Command System (ICS) is a proven management system used by emergency managers. Applying ICS during a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) activation will help maintain the safety of disaster workers, provide clear leadership and organizational structure, and improve the effectiveness of rescue efforts. This course will cover the principles of ICS and help learners understand how to effectively apply the principles through interactive real-life scenarios.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates individuals about disaster preparedness and trains and organizes teams of volunteers that can support their communities during disasters. The CERT Program offers training in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, and disaster medical operations. With proper CERT training, you can help protect your family, neighbors, and co-workers if a disaster occurs.

This course is an Independent Study course that serves as an introduction to CERT for those interested in completing the basic CERT training or as a refresher for current team members. The course includes six modules: CERT Basics, Fire Safety, Hazardous Material and Terrorist Incidents, Disaster Medical Operations, and Search and Rescue, and Course Summary.

While the course is useful as a primer or refresher for CERT training, it is not equivalent to, and cannot be used in place of, the classroom delivery of the CERT Basic Training. To become a CERT volunteer, one must complete the classroom training offered by a local government agency such as the emergency management agency, fire or police department. Contact your local emergency manager to learn about the local education and training opportunities available to you. Let this person know about your interest in taking CERT training.

This course (also referred to as Hazard Mitigation Planning) is for plan-writers and reviewers and will assist participants in undertaking the Hazard Mitigation Plan development process. This plan will meet the needs of participants’ communities and fulfill the requirements for local plans, as described in 44 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 201.6, or for tribal plans, as described in 44 CFR 201.7. In addition, this course will help Federal and state plan reviewers interpret the regulations to inform the review of local or tribal Hazard Mitigation Plans.

Selection Criteria: This course meets the needs of diverse audiences, including: local or tribal government officials; community managers; community staff, including planners; state, local, or tribal government emergency management agencies; Councils of Government or Regional Planning Commissions; first responders; state hazard mitigation officers; or other state mitigation staff. Representatives from private or non-profit organizations may want to participate in the training if they have a role in developing mitigation plans or participating in mitigation planning processes. These organizations may include: special utility districts or rural utility cooperatives; special districts, such as watershed management districts; hospital campuses; and universities or school districts.

This module is designed to help members of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation disaster workforce successfully communicate to the public the risks associated with tornadoes, and the mitigation measures available to improve personal safety and reduce damages to structures and personal property. This module is one in a series of Independent Study modules for the hazard mitigation disaster workforce, which addresses appropriate basic mitigation information for public consumption regarding earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

This module is designed to help members of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation disaster workforce successfully communicate to the public the risks associated with wildfires, and the mitigation measures available to improve personal safety and reduce damages to structures and personal property. This module is one in a series of Independent Study modules for the hazard mitigation disaster workforce, which addresses appropriate basic mitigation information for public consumption regarding earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

This module is designed to help members of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation disaster workforce successfully communicate to the public the risks associated with hurricanes, and the mitigation measures available to improve personal safety and reduce damages to structures and personal property. This module is one in a series of Independent Study modules for the hazard mitigation disaster workforce, which addresses appropriate basic mitigation information for public consumption regarding earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

Topics covered in this module include:

How hurricanes cause damage

Mitigation measures for personal safety and structures

Mitigation publications beneficial to local officials, building professionals, and the public

This module is designed to help members of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation disaster workforce successfully communicate to the public the risks associated with floods, and the mitigation measures available to improve personal safety and reduce damages to structures and personal property. This module is one in a series of Independent Study modules for the hazard mitigation disaster workforce, which addresses appropriate basic mitigation information for public consumption regarding earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

Topics covered in this module include:

How floods cause damage

Mitigation measures for personal safety and structures

Mitigation publications beneficial to local officials, building professionals, and the public

This module is designed to help members of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation disaster workforce successfully communicate to the public the risks associated with earthquakes, and the mitigation measures available to improve personal safety and reduce damages to structures and personal property. This module is one in a series of Independent Study modules for the hazard mitigation disaster workforce, which addresses appropriate basic mitigation information for public consumption regarding earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

This course presents basic information on earthquake science, risk, and mitigation. It also discusses techniques for structural and non-structural earthquake mitigation. Although certification is not a part of the course, short quizzes are included to enhance interactivity and to boost retention.

Selection Criteria: This course is targeted to a wide range of audiences, including homeowners; business owners; the private sector; Federal, state, tribal, and local government workforce at all levels; first responders; non-profit organizations; volunteers; and community-based organizations.

This course provides state and FEMA staff that review local mitigation plans with the information and training they will need to determine if a plan meets Gederal mitigation planning requirements. Updated May 2018.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new and experienced state and FEMA plan reviewers. Plan reviewers may be full or part-time, FEMA Disaster Assistance Reservists, FEMA contract plan reviewers, or state contract plan reviewers.

This course provides leading practices and resources to assist elementary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, and houses of worship in developing emergency plans for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from mass casualty incidents.

This course covers basic information about developing, implementing, and maintaining a school Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). This course provides participants with an understanding of the importance of schools having an EOP and basic information on how an EOP is developed, exercised, and maintained. The topics addressed in this course include: understanding Incident Management; forming the Planning Team; understanding the situation; developing a school EOP; incorporating Incident Command System principles and roles in the school EOP; and training, exercising, and maintaining the school EOP.

This is a very comprehensive, advanced-level course. It will introduce the learner to basic information about residential coastal construction. Some unit topics include coastal environment, regulatory requirements, and identifying hazards. This course can be downloaded from the Independent Study web site and the test can be completed and submitted online.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

The goal of this course is to provide an orientation to the Hazard Mitigation (HM) organization, its activities, applicable laws, regulations, sources of guidance/information, and important relationships, and to describe how the HM Cadre works as a team to achieve the goal of reducing harm from natural hazards across America.

The training will enable members of the disaster workforce to recognize and advance opportunities for individuals, businesses, tribes, and communities to reduce the risk of future damages from hazard events. It also is intended to provide information about the HM Branch, to raise awareness of its programs and technical capabilities that may facilitate collaboration with Joint Field Office partners in the disaster recovery process.

This course is an overview and is not intended to enable specialist trainees to successfully demonstrate ability to perform behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books. Additional training is provided on the job and through other courses identified in the Position Qualification Sheet.

Selection Criteria: This entry-level course is designed for all new HM support staff as well as non-Mitigation staff who need to understand the concepts, functions, and organization of HM in disaster operations. It will present a broad overview applicable to every function.

Mitigation means taking action to reduce or eliminate long-term risk from hazards and their effects. FEMA has produced a series of courses intended to train those who have responsibility for, or simply interest in, reducing hazard risks in their states, communities, or tribes. This course provides an introduction for those who are new to emergency management and/or hazard mitigation.

Selection Criteria: State, local, and tribal government emergency program managers, other emergency management staff, and other local government employees responsible for mitigation. The secondary audience includes Federal emergency management personnel and employees of Federal, state, and local governments who work in the emergency management field.

AWR 209 Working with the Media: A Short Course for Emergency Responders is designed to provide emergency responders with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to interact with the media and perform public information functions in preparation for and during incidents. Many agencies from small and rural communities do not have a full- or part-time public information officer (PIO) on staff and responders often assume this responsibility without formal training and practice. The intent of this course is to prepare responders for interacting with the media when required, whether it be roadside at the scene of an incident or for conveying directions to the public in a crisis situation.

As the costs of disasters continue to rise, governments and ordinary citizens must find ways to reduce hazard risks to our communities and ourselves. Efforts made to reduce hazard risks are easily made compatible with other community goals; safer communities are more attractive to employers as well as residents. As communities plan for new development and improvements to existing infrastructure, mitigation can and should be an important component of the planning effort. Mitigation means taking action to reduce or eliminate long-term risk from hazards and their effects. FEMA has produced a series of courses intended to train those who have responsibility for, or simply interest in, reducing hazard risks in their states, communities, or tribes. This course provides an introduction for those who are new to emergency management and/or hazard mitigation.

This course is designed to train on the FEMA 452, Risk Assessment, and FEMA 455, Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) for Buildings, components of the Building Design for Homeland Security course.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is the building sciences and design professional community (architects, engineers, security personnel, and facility planners) working for private institutions, and building owners, managers, and Continuity of Operations communities working for public (Federal, state, local, and tribal) and private institutions.

This course provides an introduction to Mass Care and Emergency Assistance (MC/EA) support, with a focus on Whole Community, by outlining the importance of collaboration and coordination between government, non-profit, public, and private sectors.

This course provides practical steps you can take to prepare for emergencies that could threaten your home, workplace, and community. It is intended for Federal employees living and working outside of the National Capital Region. The first lesson focuses on the importance of personal emergency preparedness and its relationship to your professional responsibilities as a Federal employee. The second lesson introduces the four steps to personal emergency preparedness: be informed, make a plan, build a kit, and get involved. The last lesson reinforces the concepts learned in the previous lessons by applying the four steps of emergency preparedness to a given scenario.

Selection Criteria: Federal employees living and working outside the National Capital Region

Emergency Preparedness for Federal Employees in the National Capital Region

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

1.0

Emergency Management

Community Resilience

Mitigation

EMI

This course provides practical steps you can take to prepare for emergencies that could threaten your home, workplace, and community. It is intended specifically for Federal employees living and working in the National Capital Region. The first lesson focuses on the importance of personal emergency preparedness and its relationship to your professional responsibilities as a Federal employee. The second lesson introduces the four steps to personal emergency preparedness: be informed, make a plan, build a kit, and get involved. The last lesson reinforces the concepts learned in the previous lessons by applying the four steps of emergency preparedness to a given scenario.

Selection Criteria: Federal employees living and working in the National Capital Region

In this course, you will learn about the potential for a biological attack, specifically one involving the disease known as anthrax.

You will learn about the measures the federal government has taken to minimize any negative effects from such an attack, including specific steps taken by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and how those measures affect you.

Additionally, the course gives you important information about what you should do to help protect yourself and others in the event of a biological attack.

As part of its effort to remain vigilant against terrorism and natural threats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken steps to prepare for and respond to a biological attack.

A key part of this response is providing the DHS workforce with medical countermeasures (MCM) whenever appropriate. This will be accomplished through the use of DHS Points of Dispensing (PODs), staffed by trained volunteers from within the DHS workforce. These POD team volunteers will be an integral part of this important effort.

This course serves as an introduction to, and overview of, homeland security planning. It is meant to act as an awareness tool for employees who may or may not have a direct homeland security planning job function. For those who do have job functions that require additional training in planning, this course is meant to be a “gateway” to the 3-day Introduction to Homeland Security/Homeland Defense course or the 5-day National Planner’s course.

This course is designed to foster an overall culture of risk management throughout the Department of Homeland Security Workforce. While providing awareness of the fundamental concepts of risk management, the course will prepare employees to manage risk at home, in the workplace, and in the community, and provide them with a foundation for further development in the area of risk management.

Introduction to Continuity of Operations Planning for Pandemic Influenzas

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

1.0

Emergency Management, Citizen/Community Volunteer

Public Health, Healthcare, and Emergency Medical Services

Protect, Respond, Mitigation

EMI

This course introduces participants to the characteristics of a pandemic influenza, the effects that a pandemic influenza can have on every facet of our society, and the steps their organizations can take to minimize the effects of a pandemic. The primary audiences for this course are personnel at any level of government, representatives from non-governmental organizations, or representatives from private industry who may have a need for a basic understanding of pandemic influenza and the impacts that they can expect should a widespread pandemic occur in the United States.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for COOP.

This is a follow-on course to IS0520, Introduction to Continuity of Operations Planning for Pandemic Influenzas. It includes a brief review of continuity planning for pandemics and then involves the participant in a continuity pandemic exercise (Determined Accord). The primary audiences for this course are personnel at any level of government, representatives from non-governmental organizations, or representatives from private industry who desire to conduct a short tabletop continuity pandemic exercise (Determined Accord). Participants should be familiar with their agency/organization continuity and pandemic plans.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations (COOP).

The purpose of the Resilient Accord Workshop is to increase Federal department and agency, state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictional Continuity of Operations awareness and discuss how to execute continuity operations resulting from a cyber security event. Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to do the following:

Define the importance of an increased organizational awareness of incorporating cyber security into continuity planning.

Discuss how critical essential functions will continue through a cyber security emergency and the planning required to perform those functions.

Review the essential elements of a viable continuity capability.

Identify solutions or alternative actions to challenges, gaps, or vulnerabilities in organizational continuity plans and procedures.

Selection Criteria: This course is available to anyone involved in Continuity of Operations.

The purpose of Guardian Accord Workshop is to increase Federal department and agencies, state, territorial, tribal, and local jurisdictions awareness about the importance of incorporating the specific risks of terrorism into continuity planning.

Selection Criteria: Federal, state, territorial, local, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a Continuity of Operations Program

This course is based on the guidance to the Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for developing Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans and programs. The purpose of the Reconstitution Planning Workshop is to assist Federal Department and Agency, state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions with the importance of developing effective and comprehensive reconstitution Planning.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government employees responsible for COOP and reconstitution planning.

This web-based course will provide all public sector employees with a fundamental understanding of Continuity of Operations (COOP), terms, objectives, and benefits to their organization. It gives a brief overview of the elements of a viable COOP capability. This awareness course provides information on how a COOP event might affect participants, their organizations, and their families, whether they are a member of their organization’s COOP team or not.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for COOP.

This web-based course is designed for a broad Federal audience--from senior managers to those directly involved in the Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning effort. The course provides a working knowledge of the COOP guidance. The course also provides activities to enhance participants’ COOP Programs.

Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for COOP.

This course provides information and resources that will enable participants to plan an effective damage assessment program and conduct rapid and effective damage assessments in order to save lives, protect property and the environment, and begin the process of recovery and mitigation.

Selection Criteria: Local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure

This course is designed to familiarize participants with the Public Assistance (PA) Program and the steps in the PA process, as well as the documentation requirements. After completing the course, participants should: be familiar with the PA Program; identify the functional steps in the PA Program; and be familiar with the documentation requirements for the PA Program.

This course provides a basic understanding of tribal governments in the United States, the history of the relationship between the Federal Government and tribes, and general information about tribal governance and cultures that will influence emergency management practices so that effective working relationships can be formed and evolve.

This course has been updated to align with the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013.

This course provides an introduction to the role of public-private partnerships in emergency preparedness and planning. The goal of this training is to establish a common vocabulary for public sector agencies and private sector organizations interested in using partnerships to improve response, recovery, and resilience.

This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The National Incident Management System defines the comprehensive approach guiding the whole community - all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and the private sector - to work together seamlessly to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the effects of incidents. The course provides learners with a basic understanding of NIMS concepts, principles, and components.

Selection Criteria: The course is intended for a wide audience of personnel which includes government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners, senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county officials and other individuals with emergency management responsibilities including prevention, protection, response, recovery and mitigation.

The public information systems described in National Incident Management System (NIMS) are designed to effectively manage public information at an incident, regardless of the size and complexity of the situation or the number of entities involved in the response. The goal of this course is to facilitate NIMS compliance by providing participants with the basic information and tools that they need to apply the NIMS public information systems and protocols during incident management.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for local and state public information officers.

This course introduces resource management as described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and shows how systems for managing resources can be used to improve incident response. The course includes examples of best practices, lessons learned, and job aids to assist the participant in planning for resource management.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for Federal, state, tribal, and local emergency managers; first responders, including incident commanders from all emergency management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and voluntary agency personnel.

The Field Force Command and Planning training program is a three-day course that prepares the management level student to serve as a member of an incident management team during a civil action or disorder. The course provides instruction on incident management, incorporating preplanning considerations and other responsibilities of management level responders. Students are trained on how to develop a local Incident Action Plan (IAP) for a civil action or disorder and implement response actions from the management level. The course culminates with an application-level tabletop exercise in which students use knowledge and skills developed in the previous sessions to plan for and command resources at the incident site.

This course describes the role, design, and functions of Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and their relationships as components of a Multi-Agency Coordination System (MACS). The course contains disaster-related examples, activities, and case studies that relate to EOCs and MACS at the Federal, state, and local levels of government.

This training is designed to equip participants with the skills needed to perform effectively at the Trainee level in their assigned Program Liaison area.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who are new to the function of EA Program Liaison. A secondary audience is individuals who have field experience, but require component-specific instruction to fully prepare them to perform their function.

This course introduces participants to the concepts and principles of the National Response Framework. The goal of this course is to familiarize participants with the National Response Framework and the ways it is applied in actual response situations.

Selection Criteria:

This course is intended for government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners. This includes senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, city or county officials, and FEMA and other federal agency emergency managers and staff – those who have a responsibility to provide for effective response.

All levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and individuals that play a role in response are also welcome to take this course.

The National Response Framework (NRF) presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies from the smallest incident to the largest catastrophe. As part of the NRF, Support Annexes describe how Federal departments and agencies, the private sector, volunteer organizations, and non-governmental organizations coordinate and execute the common support processes and administrative tasks required during an incident. The actions described in the Support Annexes are not limited to particular types of events, but are overarching in nature and applicable to nearly every type of incident.

Fundamentals of Management and Support Coordination of Federal Disaster Operations

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

4.0

Emergency Management

Operational Coordination

Respond, Recover

EMI

This course is designed to provide the fundamental knowledge for FEMA and other Federal emergency management personnel to assist with disaster operations with incident management or support roles. The course content is based upon FEMA’s authorities and doctrine. This awareness-level course provides the learner a good starting point to further training in his/her specific FQS position.

Selection Criteria: All FEMA employees who are assigned to a FEMA Qualification System position in incident management or incident support

As part of the National Response Framework (NRF), Incident Annexes address the unique aspects of how we respond to seven broad incident categories (e.g., biological, nuclear/radiological, mass evacuation). The overarching nature of functions described in these annexes frequently involves either support to or cooperation of all Federal departments and agencies involved in incident management efforts to ensure seamless integration of and transitions between preparedness, prevention, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.

The National Response Framework (NRF) presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies—from the smallest incident to the largest catastrophe. As part of the NRF, the Incident Annexes describe the concept of operations to address specific contingency or hazard situations or an element of an incident requiring specialized application of the NRF. This course provides an introduction to the Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex (NRIA) to the NRF.

This is the first course in the Dams Sector web-based training series. The purpose of this series of courses is to provide owners and operators with information pertaining to security awareness, protective measures, and crisis management.

This course addresses crisis management activities as an important component of an overall risk management program and provides dam and levee stakeholders with recommendations to assist in the development of various plans focused on enhancing preparedness, protection, recovery, and resilience capabilities. The training course describes the purpose and basic elements of emergency action plans, recovery plans, and continuity plans; and addresses the basic elements of an effective exercise program.

Selection Criteria: All Dams Sector facility owners and operators, with emphasis on owners and operators seeking the fundamentals of the crisis management elements of a risk management program

Dams Sector: Security Awareness is the second course in the Dams Sector web-based training series. The purpose of this series of courses is to provide owners and operators with information pertaining to security awareness, protective measures, and crisis management.

This course explains how security awareness is an important component of an overall risk management program. In addition, it provides owners and operators with information that assists in identifying security concerns, coordinating proper response, and establishing effective partnerships with local law enforcement and first responders.

Selection Criteria: All Dams Sector facility owners and operators, with emphasis on owners and operators seeking the fundamentals of the crisis management elements of a risk management program

Dams Sector: Protective Measures is the third course in the Dams Sector web-based training series. The purpose of this series of courses is to provide owners and operators with information pertaining to security awareness, protective measures, and crisis management. This course provides owners and operators with information regarding protective programs used to reduce and manage risk within the Dams Sector.

Selection Criteria: All Dams Sector facility owners and operators, with emphasis on owners and operators seeking the fundamentals of the crisis management elements of a risk management Program

An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and otherwise populated area. In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims. Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly. All employees can help prevent and prepare for potential active shooter situations.

This course provides guidance to individuals, including managers and employees, so that they can prepare to respond to an active shooter situation. This course is not written for law enforcement officers but for non-law enforcement employees. The material may provide law enforcement officers information on recommended actions for non-law enforcement employees to take should they be confronted with an active shooter situation.

The purpose of this course is to prepare participants to conduct a Jurisdictional Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA). Participants will identify threats and hazards of jurisdictional concern, give those threats and hazards context, establish capability targets, and determine how to apply the THIRA results

This course introduces senior officials to the important role they play in emergency management. The responsibility for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from incidents, both natural and manmade, begins at the local level—with individuals and public officials in the county, city, or town affected by the incident. This course presents simple steps officials can take to become acquainted with their emergency management role, authorities, and team members. The course includes video presentations sharing lessons learned from officials of the city of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

Selection Criteria: Senior officials, including mayors, city managers, and county managers

Community members are the key to our Nation’s preparedness and resilience. As such, we need to:

Support the development of prepared, vigilant, and engaged communities.

Foster strategic partnerships among:

The private sector;

Non-governmental organizations;

Foundations;

Community-based organizations.

This course presents a model program for community preparedness. In addition, it includes 16 Preparedness Modules ranging from 20 to 90 minutes that can be delivered to community groups. The modules (available in English and Spanish) provide information and activities on:

This course will make persons involved in commercial retail operations aware of the actions they can take to identify and report suspicious purchases or thefts of products that actors could use in terrorist or other criminal activities. To achieve this goal, the course provides an overview of prevention steps aimed at identifying and monitoring high-risk inventory products and reporting suspicious activities to law enforcement agencies.

This course will make critical infrastructure employees and service providers aware of actions they can take to detect and report suspicious activities associated with hostile surveillance. To achieve this goal, the course provides an overview of surveillance activities and the indicators associated with them, as well as the actions that employees and service providers can take to report potential surveillance incidents.

This course introduces the skills and tools to effectively achieve results for critical infrastructure protection and resilience through partnership and collaboration. The course provides an overview of the elements of and processes to develop and sustain successful critical infrastructure protection partnerships.

Critical Infrastructure Security: Theft and Diversion - What You Can Do

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

1.0

Emergency Management

Physical Protective Measures

Protect, Respond

EMI

This course introduces critical infrastructure personnel to the information they need and the resources available to them to identify threats and vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure from the theft and diversion of critical resources, raw materials, and products that can be used for criminal or terrorist activities. The course also identifies actions that participants can take to reduce or prevent theft and diversion.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for critical infrastructure personnel who: are responsible for the storage, sale, or transfer of materials or technologies of value; work at sites where products or raw materials are susceptible to theft or diversion, such as facilities covered under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards regulations; and desire to heighten their awareness regarding theft or diversion vulnerabilities and countermeasures.

This course introduces those with critical infrastructure duties and responsibilities at the state, local, tribal, and territorial levels to the information they need and the resources available to them in the execution of the mission to secure and improve resilience in the Nation’s critical infrastructure.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for all individuals with critical infrastructure protection responsibilities.

This hands-on course is designed to empower emergency managers, planners, engineers, public safety professionals, and others with the skills needed to visualize, query, and analyze information related to disaster mitigation, response, recovery, and risk management using ArcGIS, the application on which Hazus-MH is based. The course provides a solid foundation of basic skills for new ArcGIS users as well as an exploration of the many powerful tools for managing, visualizing, and analyzing information that ArcGIS and its many extensions make available.

The National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), developed in conformance with Presidential Policy Directive-8, outlines the basis for a national approach to disaster recovery. The NDRF defines how we will work together to best meet the needs of individuals, families, communities and states in their ongoing efforts to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond to and recover from any disaster event.

This is an intermediate-level course designed to describe the core principles and processes of HSEEP, its standardized methodology, available resources, and practical skill development, which will assist in developing an HSEEP consistant exercise program.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this training are those involved in planning, program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning of HSEEP consistent exercises.

This is an intermediate-level course designed to describe the core principles and processes of HSEEP, its standardized methodology, available resources, and practical skill development, which will assist in developing an HSEEP consistent exercise program.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this training are those involved in planning,program management, design anddevelopment, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning of HSEEP consistent exercises.

This seminar presents information on the fundamental aspects of security and protection concepts for dams and waterways, and how these can have a substantial impact on the severity of consequences, or even prevent an incident from occurring entirely.

This seminar provides a foundation for effective security and protection programs and is designed to be practical and provide adequate support for implementation of learned objectives outside the classroom.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course is limited to dam owners, professional staff of dam safety and security programs, and emergency managers at the Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as dam safety, dam security, and incident management personnel from the private sector.

This course provides dam owners, emergency managers, and other relevant stakeholders with information needed to define and estimate consequences for dam failure scenarios. The course will provide participants with an overview and description of current consequence estimation methodologies, including information on the technical capability and resource requirements for each.The course will highlight the importance of defining dam failure scenarios and assessing consequences through the presentation of case studies. The full range of social, institutional, and environmental consequences will be addressed during the course, including focus on direct and indirect economic consequences and loss-of-life estimation. Specific instructions and detailed examples for computing economic and loss-of-life consequences will be provided for some of the more commonly used procedures and methodologies. Participants will be provided with the concepts of how consequence assessment is an important part of risk management strategies, how to establish initial priorities using consequence data, and how consequence estimation plays an important role in emergency preparedness efforts.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course is limited to dam owners, professional staff of dam safety and security programs, and emergency managers at the Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as dam safety, dam security, and incident management personnel from the private sector.

This course is designed to enable participants to define and describe Risk MAP; identify the purpose and scope of the Risk MAP process and tools; describe the roles of Federal, state, and local users in producing and delivering Risk Map; describe Risk MAP decision-making tools; and identify Risk MAP resources.

This course, conducted onsite at state locations, instructs state and local emergency managers/planners on how to plan for and make decisions to implement and execute protective actions from hurricanes, particularly hurricane evacuations.

Participants receive comprehensive instruction from National Hurricane Center (NHC) Specialists on how to use hurricane forecasts and other NHC products to determine who and when they must evacuate from various types of approaching hurricanes. This includes how to interpret and use the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes numerical storm surge model to perform the hurricane hazard analysis of their coastal jurisdiction. The course then provides instruction from FEMA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Specialists on using data from their state and local Hurricane Evacuation Studies (HES) to formulate local evacuation plans. In addition, the course provides hands-on instruction on the use of the HURREVAC computer software decision-support tool for determining the optimum timing of their evacuation decisions and evacuation orders.

The course includes a demonstration of how the NHC Specialists track and forecast hurricanes and their potential impacts. The final course activity is a hurricane exercise to practice the tools and techniques presented in the course.

Selection Criteria: The state sponsoring the training selects the attendees that represent the target audience.

This course, held at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida, instructs emergency managers on how to plan for and make decisions to implement and execute protective actions from hurricanes, particularly hurricane evacuations.

Participants receive comprehensive instruction from NHC Specialists on how to use hurricane forecasts and other NHC products to determine who and when they must evacuate from various types of approaching hurricanes. This includes how to interpret and use the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) numerical storm surge model to perform the hurricane Hazard Analysis of their coastal jurisdiction.

The course then provides instruction from FEMA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Specialists on using data from their state and local Hurricane Evacuation Studies (HES) to formulate local evacuation plans. In addition, the course provides hands-on instruction on the use of the HURREVAC computer software decision-support tool for determining the optimum timing of their evacuation decisions and evacuation orders.

The course includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the NHC and a demonstration of how the NHC Specialists track and forecast hurricanes and their potential impacts. The final course activity is a hurricane exercise to practice the tools and techniques presented in the course.

Selection Criteria: The course is designed for:

State and coastal local emergency managers that have hurricane evacuation decision-making authority.

Elected officials that have hurricane evacuation decision-making authority.

Hurricane evacuation planners and operations officers who have direct responsibilities for evacuation decision-making during a hurricane.

Participants will be selected based on their jurisdiction and responsibilities. To participate, all applicants must serve coastal communities. Applications from inland communities will not be accepted.

This 3-day course provides institutions of higher education with the knowledge and planning strategies to better protect lives, property, and operations within the context of comprehensive emergency management by using the Incident Command System to develop and implement an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP).

This workshop is for local jurisdiction elected and appointed senior officials. Its purpose is to provide a forum to discuss strategic and executive-level issues related to disaster preparedness, share proven strategies and best practices, and enhance coordination among officials responsible for emergency response to a disaster. Participants receive an Executive Handbook outlining the emergency management framework (protection, preparedness, response, and recovery phases), as well as other key senior level issues and discussions topics.

This 2-day course provides tribal representatives with an understanding of how to develop and implement a Continuity of Operations Program to ensure continuity of community essential functions across a wide range of emergencies and events. Topics include legal basis for continuity, continuity planning, determining essential functions, vital records management, and pandemic flu implications for continuity operations.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience is tribal leaders, tribal emergency managers, and tribal community response personnel. This course is only offered as an offsite delivery. Delivery must be requested through the EMI Preparedness Branch.

This 4-hour course will provide elected and appointed tribal officials with the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare their communities to respond to and recover from incidents and help tribal leaders understand how effective emergency management can improve the sustainability of their tribal community and better protect tribal citizens, lands, culture, and sovereignty.

Selection Criteria: Participants should be mid-to-senior-level logistics/emergency managers from organizations such as DHS, or other Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial agencies and the Military Services (Active, Guard, Reserve) to include Military Officers (O-4 through O-6), Warrant Officers (W-3 through W-5), Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (E-7 through E-9), or Federal Civilians (GS-13 through GS-15 or equivalent). Civilians from non-governmental and volunteer agencies are also invited to attend. Those not falling into one of the above categories, but may benefit from, or contribute, to this seminar-style forum may attend, with Governor’s Office of Emergency Services approval.

This course provides new FEMA legal staff with the skills required to provide effective legal support during response and recovery operations.

After completion of this course, participants will have a basic understanding of FEMA’s statutory and regulatory framework, fiscal and grant management law, the interface between FEMA Headquarters Office of Chief Counsel (OCC) and field operations, and the roles and responsibilities of the field legal staff. They will have a basic knowledge of substantive topics including disaster declarations and response operations focusing on Federal agency authorities; coordination of Federal, state, local, tribal, and voluntary agency support; mission assignments; grant assistance for emergency protective measures; records requests (Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act); and recovery operations focusing on public assistance, individual assistance, and hazard mitigation. In addition, they will receive instruction on providing legal advice under disaster conditions (Advice in Crisis).

This course will train FEMA Incident Support (IS) staff on the Chief and Advisory Staff Section processes, roles, and interactions that occur at and among the National Response Coordination Center and/or Regional Response Coordination Centers. This course builds on the concepts and principles covered in L0820, Fundamentals of Incident Response. At the completion of this course, the IS Chief and Advisory Staff will enhance their ability to function in their specific roles to support national and regional requirements.

Selection Criteria: All IS (Incident Support) employees and other agency representatives who will serve as Chief and Advisory Staff personnel or are preparing for such a role with the NRCC/RRCC.

This course will train FEMA Incident Support staff on the Situational Awareness Section (SAS) processes, roles, and interactions that occur at and among the National Response Coordination Center and/or Regional Response Coordination Centers. This course builds on the concepts and principles covered in L0820, Fundamentals of Incident Response.

Selection Criteria: The target audience includes all FEMA IS employees serving as SAS personnel or preparing for an SAS role within the NRCC or RRCC.

This course provides an overview of the FEMA Incident Support function, as well as foundational knowledge regarding the roles and responsibilities of the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) and Regional Response Coordination Centers (RRCCs) in order to prepare FEMA personnel to assume incident support positions as part of the National Response Coordination Staff (NRCS) or Regional Response Coordination Staff (RRCS).

The VTTX involves key personnel discussing simulated scenarios in an informal setting, and can be used to assess plans, policies, training, and procedures. The VTTX differs from other tabletop exercises in that it will be conducted using Video-Teleconference (VTC) technology (not a web based program), and is intended to provide an opportunity for responders across the Nation to simultaneously participate in a hazard-specific facilitated discussion. Lead facilitation for the exercise will be coordinated by EMI, with local facilitation provided by the participating agency. This format allows the common delivery of exercise materials, scenarios, modules, and discussion questions among those participating in the exercise.

The Enhanced All-Hazards Incident Management/Unified Command course focuses on incident management skills, staff responsibilities, and the related situational awareness and decision-making skills using a computer-driven training simulation to offer a challenging decision-making environment in an all-hazards scenario. The course focuses on the Incident Command Post (ICP) and the key decision-making requirements within that response node. Participants learn from the cause and effects of incident decisions while working in an ICP using a simulated, notional jurisdiction. This course focuses on three primary processes: planning, resource management, and information management. There are four rigorous, computer-driven emergency response exercises designed to hone both individual and team-building decision-making and incident management skills.

The purpose of this course is to help prevent, reduce, or mitigate the potential consequences of a domestic terrorist attack, natural catastrophe, or other emergency using all-hazards scenarios to determine site-specific consequences and their impacts to a jurisdiction.

The course will assist local emergency responders and stakeholders in identifying critical infrastructure sectors that may be at risk in their jurisdiction and aid them in the development of mitigation strategies that can lessen the jurisdictional impacts.

The Disaster Management for Public Services provides a unique opportunity for public service professionals to extend their knowledge and skills necessary for protecting their communities and infrastructure from potential or actual threats. During this course, participants work together in multidisciplinary teams to apply the course information with their professional experience in a variety of hands-on, small group activities and disaster scenarios.

This course brings together representatives from public service agencies such as utilities and public works, transportation, fire, public safety, city planning/urban development, public health, and local, state, and federal emergency management officials who are expected to identify and mitigate hazards and plan and manage disaster response and recovery efforts within their jurisdictions.

This course examines the role of public information in Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorist, and all-hazards incident management and provides practical training in crisis communication techniques. In a major incident, it is of critical importance that community leaders, incident managers, and public information officers are prepared to communicate with the public through traditional and social media. This course focuses on the role of public information in WMD, terrorism, or all-hazards incident management; the information needs of the press and public in a crisis; and strategies for planning, conducting, and managing the crisis public information effort. The intended audience is the individuals within a jurisdiction whose duties may require them to interface with news media during their community’s response to a WMD, terrorism, or all-hazards incident. Course participants who would benefit from this training include a jurisdiction’s key elected officials, public information officers, key department heads, key public health and medical personnel, first responders, and emergency management officials from both the public and private sectors.

The Mass Prophylaxis Preparedness and Planning course is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) certified course intended for the full spectrum of participants within a community—from volunteers to highly trained, skilled professionals. This course is a two-day workshop and facilitated discussion that covers the roles played by each of the following in distributing resources during a public health emergency: the Center for Disease Control’s Division of Strategic National Stockpile; the state, territory, or tribal nation; and the local jurisdiction.

The Search and Rescue in Community Disasters course is designed to provide training for community members to safely conduct search and light rescue response to aid their family and neighbors in the immediate aftermath of a natural catastrophe, technological accident, or human-caused incidents. The course is intended for members of the whole community and draws on information and lessons learned from a variety of disaster incidents such as hurricanes, tornados, and man-made events for discussion points. Hands-on training is used to demonstrate best practices for effective search and light rescue, which can be used in both residential and commercial environments.

Developed and delivered by the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) and sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), CFR focuses on emergency response to a cyber-attack that has crippled or disabled critical cyber-infrastructure. CFR combines instructor led classroom lecture with hands-on computer lab applications to prepare first responders to effectively counter a cyber-attack and restore critical infrastructure as quickly and efficiently as possible. Course participants are trained to use cyberterrorism response tools against real world simulated cyber-attacks, and learn the proper steps of incident response to include incident assessment, detection and analysis, and the containing, eradicating, and recovering process from a system or network-based attack.

The Homemade Explosives: Awareness, Recognition, and Response, Mobile course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to recognize and respond to incidents involving Homemade Explosives (HME) through lectures and exercies. Emergency first responders are presented with information necessary to recongnize HME precursors, HME manufacturing indicators, and HME exposure indicators, and determine pre-detonation and post-detonation response strategies.Throughout this course, emergency first responders discuss how to implement safe response strategies with recogniing the presence of HME indicators; understanding these response actions is critical to mitigating the hazards associated with HME.

This course primarily serves to give insight into adult education and to improve the instructional skills and styles of experienced instructors. The course focuses on best teaching and training practices, and it enhances understanding of instructional competencies set by the International Board for Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction (IBSTPI). Emphasis is placed on the active, learner-centered style of delivery and student experience. The course includes problem-based training and concentrates on providing performance, technical, and higher-level skills instruction.

Emergency Management, Law Enforcement, Public Safety Communications, Other

Community Resilience

Emergency Management Leadership

Prevent, Protect, Respond, Recover, Common

NTED

This two-day course provides campus leaders; faculty governance; student governance; campus law enforcement and security departments; campus health, medical, and mental health services; campus public affairs; jurisdictional law enforcement and public safety agencies; and jurisdictional public information officers with an understanding and ability to navigate difficult aspects of dealing with campus emergencies—either natural events or human-caused events including acts of violence. The course consists of small, problem-based, integrated group activities that require a coordinated, integrated approach to solve.

Through tabletop scenarios, course participants will observe a developing incident and respond in a manner consistent with currently established campus and jurisdictional emergency operations procedures.

Successfully preventing, deterring, responding to, and recovering from incidents in the campus community depend upon campus and community leaders recognizing the importance of an integrated approach beforehand. This holistic approach must recognize that successful nationally accepted emergency management principles used during responses to high-consequence events also can and will work when dealing with campus emergencies. Recent national events have demonstrated that campuses are not exempt from dealing with crises.

As these threats and hazards have increased and evolved, the US government has expanded its support of initiatives to prepare federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement personnel, in conjunction with the collegiate community, to use an all-hazards approach when dealing with campus emergencies.

This class is designed to address campus emergencies associated with a spontaneous event requiring the attention of college and campus officials, emergency responders, elected officials, and other community stakeholders. The class consists of nine modules. These modules include classroom instruction, facilitated discussions, and practical activities involving scenario-driven problems intended to facilitate discussion and decision making.

This course teaches community leaders and public safety professionals how to plan for event security, a critical part of successful event planning. This is a planning- and management-level course designed to introduce basic principles and skills associated with planning security for a variety of events that range from small events to large-scale, regional events involving personnel from multiple agencies and jurisdictions.

This course is designed to foster a Whole Community approach to event security planning and encourages participation among law enforcement, emergency management, EMS, fire service, and public health personnel, as well as other stakeholders who have a responsibility for security during planned event (e.g., event organizers). The Whole Community approach reinforces the benefits of cross-discipline collaboration in advance planning for event security.

This course is designed to educate all small- and rural-community public safety personnel as well as local officials concerning security concerns and considerations involved with planning any event. Designed as a planning level course, it does not provide operational training regarding security at planned events. This is a planning and management course designed to introduce basic principles and skills associated with planning security for events in small communities and rural areas. This course enables participants to recognize and plan adequate strategies and security measures to prevent or mitigate security incidents related to planned events. The course reinforces the importance and magnitude of security planning required to execute a safe and effective event regardless of the size of the event.

This seminar is an executive-level presentation for the nation’s senior officials at the city, county, regional, territory, tribal, and state levels. Seminar participants will discuss the strategic- and executive-level issues and challenges related to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a catastrophic incident. The venue provides an excellent opportunity to share proven strategies and practices and apply lessons learned from past natural and human-made disasters.

This course is designed to provide a strategic overview of disaster management for water and wastewater professionals and presents information regarding preparing for and responding to natural or human-caused disasters that threaten water and wastewater facilities and systems. The course also covers planning for and responding to disasters that affect drinking water and wastewater systems. Participants are guided through portions of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Response Protocol Toolbox (RPTB) to identify steps in the response and recovery processes and are given the opportunity to practice developing a disaster response plan for a water and wastewater related disaster.

The Disaster Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities course is designed to provide training to water and wastewater professionals on issues concerning preparing for, mitigating against, responding to, and recovering from natural or human-caused disasters that threaten water and wastewater facilities and systems.

The Disaster Management for Electric Power Systems course is designed to provide training to electric systems managers and employees to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against natural disasters, technological disasters, and human-caused incidents that affect or threaten electric power facilities and systems.

This course provides personnel, who could be assigned or work in an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the skills necessary to effectively plan for and manage a large-scale incident by applying and implementing an all-hazards, multi-disciplinary, management team approach as described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS), with specific emphasis on the planning, resource, and information management processes. The course culminates with a scenario-based, simulation-supported exercise designed to provide practical experience with emergency management processes and decision-making skills necessary to effectively manage an EOC. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Operations and Planning for All-Hazards Events course is 24 hours long, with decision-based activities and exercises comprising 50 percent of the course.

The ICS Forms Review course is a 4-hour workshop that provides emergency response supervisors and mid- to upper-level managers with a detailed introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS) forms used in the development of an Incident Action Plan (IAP) and/or Coordination Action Plan (CAP). Participants will examine the primary forms used in an IAP/CAP, as well as supporting and other utility forms. In addition, participants will review the planning process and where, within that process, the forms are filled out and by whom. The workshop includes a practical application designed to instruct participants in the development of Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Time-based (SMART) control and management objectives.

Will you be prepared in the event of an “Improvised Explosive Device (IED)” blast for the number of victims you will need to care for and the blast injuries you will see? Will you be prepared for the investigation that will start one second post blast? Who are the stockholders in a mass casualty event like this?

This co-sponsored course, developed and delivered by the TEEX/NERRTC and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology’s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (NMT/EMRTC), provides a strong emphasis in developing a multi-discipline approach to respond for bombing incidents.

Essential first responder/first receiver personnel who would be involved in the medical response to an explosive incident will be introduced to real world event case studies and research-based information designed to enhance medical preparedness for and response to blast effects. This dual audience/dual level course includes a Management and Planning level section focused on pre-incident indications of bombing incidents, bombing incident scene safety and security, and resource management for bombing incidents and a Performance level section focused on bombing incident injury patterns and treatment, managing the medical response for bombing incidents, and the planning, training, and exercise cycle for bombing incidents.

Incident Command: Capabilities, Planning, and Response Actions for All Hazards (IC) is a three-day course that provides management-level responders with knowledge of how decisions made by responders from various disciplines can impact the handling of a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) incident. The importance of planning and training for a CBRNE incident response is stressed to participants, thus the course incorporates preparedness planning considerations and incident management concepts to train participants to serve as members of an incident management team. Participants are immersed in a curriculum that will promote development of their abilities to evaluate the threat, identify and prioritize probable targets, measure required capabilities, and discuss the Incident Response Plan (IRP) and Incident Action Plan (IAP) processes. The course culminates with a real-time, scenario-driven tabletop exercise that requires participants to apply concepts learned during the course to plan for and manage emergency response resources.

This planning/management-level course is designed to provide business continuity training to communities nationwide. In an effort to develop a standard terminology among private and public sector entities, it identifies commonalities between emergency management and business continuity planning, and outlines BCP within the framework of emergency management. Since successful recovery from disasters is contingent upon successful mitigation, preparedness and response, participants will learn how to write a business continuity plan comprised of four major strategies: 1) mitigation strategy, 2) preparedness strategy, 3) response strategy and 4) recovery strategy.

The Master of Arts in Security Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security was the first advanced degree in homeland security offered in the United States. The program is 18-months long and combines distance and in-residence education. Students spend two weeks per quarter at the Naval Postgraduate School campus or CHDS’ facility at the Customs Border Protection Advanced Training Center in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The remaining coursework is conducted online. The program develops officials’ critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills so they are prepared to overcome obstacles and create new policies and strategies to protect the nation. Students study topics such as critical infrastructure protection, planning and budgeting, technology in homeland security, and the psychology of terrorism, among others. Graduates are required to complete a thesis on a topic facing their employing agency. The degree is offered at no cost to eligible senior and fast-track local, state, tribal and federal officials

Basic Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Concepts for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events (AWR-111-W) is a web-based course that introduces students to medical knowledge relating to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events. Subjects include signs and symptoms of exposure to CBRNE agents, treatment protocols for contact with these agents and information about Emergency Medical Services role in the Incident Command System. The program is recommended before attending a PER-211 Medical Management of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Event course, or it can be completed by someone looking for an introduction into this topic.

Managing Food Emergencies: Strategies for a Community Response is a management-level course that teaches participants how to manage food emergencies using the emergency operations center (EOC), Incident Command System (ICS) principles, and best management practices.

Participants will manage a fictional food emergency using the guidelines and strategies of the Incident and Unified Command systems. The scenario will advance with every module, beginning with Module 2, from the point that a foodborne outbreak is detected. The scenario will progress throughout the modules from surveillance and into the transition to recovery. In Module 7, participants will engage in an after-action discussion to assess their current preparedness for a food emergency and the value of using ICS principles and practices, and adding Emergency Management as a food emergency response partner.

This course covers the Community Rating System (CRS), a nationwide initiative of FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). It describes activities eligible for credit under the 2017 CRS Coordinator’s Manual, how a community applies, and how a community modifies an application to improve its classification.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for a wide range of participants including FEMA regional office staff, NFIP state coordinators, regional planning officials, local and tribal government officials, those who perform floodplain services for local governments, and others interested in learning about the CRS in order to provide technical assistance to communities seeking to apply for CRS credit. Attendance will be limited to two participants from any one community in any fiscal year.

This activity-based, 5-day course provides requisite technical knowledge for FEMA personnel fulfilling the role of Division Supervisor (DIVS) at the incident management level. The course provides the target audience training opportunities to identify and practice the essential behaviors required when performing the duties of the DIVS position, in alignment with the FEMA DIVS Position Task Book, the FEMA Incident Management Handbook, and FEMA incident management doctrine. This course is one of the required steps to becoming an FQS-qualified FEMA DIVS.

Selection Criteria: FEMA Division Supervisor Trainee or Candidate; other positions may attend with permission from the Operations Cadre Management.

This course provides school staff with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to prepare for school emergencies before, during and after a school emergency. Staffwill have an opportunity to improve school emergency preparedness efforts by providing them with the preparedness skills necessary to strengthen both school and classroom-level prevention, mitigation, protection, response and recovery capabilities.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for certified and non-certified staff to include teachers, substitute teachers, teacher’s aides, teachers representing their school safety committees, school secretaries, guidance counselors, food service workers, coaches, and nurses in kindergarten through grade 12. This course is not intended for school administrators.

The National Response Framework (NRF) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) devote significant attention to the importance of emergency public information. Public information is one-third of one-fifth of NIMS under Command and Management, placing public information at the same level as the Incident Command System (ICS).

With public information included as a function within NIMS and ICS, it is critical to address and provide training for this important element of emergency management.

EMI's Public Information Officer (PIO) training curriculum includes courses delivered at the awareness, basic, intermediate, advanced and master levels. The awareness, basic and intermediate level courses were developed by EMI and are managed by state emergency management trainers who teach basic skills and techniques for use during small, localized, single-agency responses; preparedness campaigns; and escalating localized responses.

The advanced level course is the fourth in the public information training series. It teaches participants additional skills for use during escalating incidents, including strategic communications and incident action planning as it relates to Joint Information Center (JIC) operations.

The goal of this course is to:

Provide participants with the knowledge and skills to establish, manage and work within a JIC through multimedia lectures and individual and group activities.

Provide participants the opportunity to apply advanced public information skills during a multi-day functional exercise (FE) designed to test the participants’ abilities to analyze, coordinate, process and create information in a fast-paced, realistic environment.

Through a tabletop exercise (TTX), encourage participants to evaluate their processes to help them generate new ideas, products, or ways of viewing challenges or situations.

Encourage participants to improve their processes and ensure every action has a measurable relevance for each identified audience, including senior leadership.

Selection Criteria: Full-time public information personnel who have completed the prerequisites.

The “G” course requirements can be waived for those individuals who have extensive experience in public information activities.

Waiver requests must be in writing and submitted to Admissions.

Part-time public information officers with approval from course manager.

Students who have not attended this training in the previous five years may also apply.

This course guides the entire External Affairs (EA) operation, managing the Strategic Communications Plan for an incident working with the five functional areas: Congressional Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs, Joint Information Center, Planning and Products, and Private Sector. To be successful, the External Affairs Officer (EAO) must be skillful in managing programs, leading people, and working collaboratively. The EAO often works directly with FEMA Regional leadership as well as leadership from FEMA Headquarters, the Department of Homeland Security, and even the Office of the President. Several FEMA courses touch on Command and General Staff leadership subject areas and, in fact, may be required training for Assistant EAOs. This course relates these competencies to the EA environment. This course builds on the technical foundation established in E0475, External Affairs Specialist Training, as well as in E0739, Intermediate External Affairs; E0748, Assistant External Affairs Officer; and other FEMA management training. This course will prepare participants to serve as an EAO.

Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be members of the EA Cadre. They will be designated by FEMA Headquarters EA Training and Cadre Management and must possess an open FEMA Qualification System Position Task Book for an EAO.

The 2-day course will train FEMA Incident Support (IS) staff on the Resource Support Section (RSS) processes, roles, and interactions that occur at and among the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) and/or Regional Response Coordination Centers (RRCCs). This course builds on the concepts and principles covered in L0820, Fundamentals of Incident Response.

This course is designed for emergency management personnel who are involved in developing an effective emergency planning system. It offers training in the fundamentals of the emergency planning process, including the rationale behind planning. It will develop your capability for effective participation in the all-hazards emergency operations planning process to save lives and protect property threatened by disaster.

The PRND Team Operations course provides Team Operators with the ability to perform multiple tasks typically performed during PRND missions including, chokepoints and checkpoints, wide area and facility sweeps. Additonal material covers the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture, radiation fundamentals pertaining to team operators, and equipment selection and preparation.

This course enables participants to improve their community’s Mitigation and Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) specifically regarding the needs of children. The course will provide participants with the information needed to address the unique needs of children prior to, during, and following disasters. It will also provide them guidance and direction on how to form coalitions and how to become advocates for the unique needs of children in all aspects of emergency management.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is state and local emergency managers and planners, child services agencies, non-governmental organizations, childcare providers, schools, and faith-based organizations.

Single Point Order Tracking (SPOT) is defined as an Agency-wide integrated and standardized process to manage and track all resource orders for disaster supplies, equipment, services, personnel, and teams; from order to delivery to the end user or customer. This course provides the step-by-step process and business practices for SPOT and will provide opportunities to practice working in teams to apply the SPOT process.

This training is intended to enable senior financial disaster staff to perform their duties in a more uniform and unified manner by increasing technical skills and reinforcing lessons learned from on-the-job training; providing measurable milestones in recognizing increased skill level; increasing consistency in quality of work, clean-up, and close-out of Joint Field Offices; and providing for consistent performance and qualification of resources.

This course is designed to prepare participants to serve as Type II Logistics Section Chiefs in a complex (Type 2) incident.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes experienced Type III Logistics Section Chiefs. However, the course will be open to Federal Coordinating Officers (FCOs) and Regional or National Response Coordination Center (RRCC/NRCC) support staff.

The Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings, Customized course is designed to provide emergency first responders with information on the skills to recognize and respond to terrorist bombing incidents. Emergency first responders are presented with information necessary to recongmize explosives and their effects, identify Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and their components, and determine pre-detonation and post-detonation response strategies.

This is an eight-hour awareness-level course to provide emergency managers, first responders, and campus officials with a basic understanding of the latest knowledge of the best practices of hazardous weather preparedness activities for academic campus communities. This awareness-level course will fulfill the goals of the “whole community” approach to emergency management by reaching a broad sector of the community. Multiple core capabilities will be addressed, with particular emphasis on “public information and warning” and “planning.” Participants who represent sectors such as mass care services, health and social services, operational communications, critical transportation, and planning would further expand the discussions in this course to other corresponding core capabilities.

The national and economic security of the United States depends on the reliable functioning of critical infrastructure. This course provides participants from throughout the various levels of government, private industry, and community an understanding of the interdependency between physical and cybersecurity disciplines and opportunities to collaboratively formulate enterprise risk management strategies to enhance infrastructure security and resilience efforts.

This course will prepare participants to understand the basics of winter weather science, the winter weather forecasting process, how winter weather forecasts are communicated, and the fundamentals of winter weather safety and preparedness. Since winter storms can strike every state in the United States, it is important that every community be ready for the hazards associated with them. This awareness-level course will fulfill the goals of the “whole community” approach to emergency management by reaching a broad sector of the community. Multiple core capabilities will be addressed, with particular emphasis on “public information and warning” and “threats and hazard identification.” Participants who represent sectors such as mass care services, health and social services, operational communications, critical transportation, and planning would further expand the discussions in this course to other corresponding core capabilities

This course provides Tribal community participants with the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to effectively detect, respond to, manage and mitigate all-hazard threats using a whole community approach. The course addresses the distinctive challenges that Tribal nations face in effectively detecting, responding to, managing and mitigating all-hazard threats that include disease outbreaks and the occurrence of environmental health threats. The course includes a practical exercise that will support participants in identification of the following: 1) all-hazards threats in tribal communities; 2) community resources for all-hazards emergency planning in tribal communities; and 3) response and recovery considerations that should be included in tribal all-hazards emergency plans. The intended audience is Tribal community representatives and other officials from emergency management, public health, law enforcement, fire-fighting, cooperative extension, medical services, environmental health, veterinarians, and other animal health professionals.

This course provides Tribal nations with the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to effectively detect, respond to, and mitigate a disease outbreak, using a whole community approach. The course addresses the challenges that Tribal nations face in responding to a disease outbreak and focuses on a zoonotic disease outbreak response. A zoonotic disease is a disease that can be transmitted between animals (e.g., livestock, poultry, and wildlife) and humans. In Tribal communities, many opportunities for human-animal interaction exist on a daily basis, especially with livestock and poultry. In the case of influenzas, swine and poultry can be key reservoirs of the virus with possible transmission to humans. This interaction, potential exposure and infection route creates unique epidemiological challenges for public health, emergency management and agricultural agencies in Tribal communities. Isolation and quarantine strategies must be put in place not only for the affected human population, but also for the animal populations to limit spread of the disease. Utilizing a whole-community approach provides a foundation to incorporate all available community resources in the response effort. The target audience is Tribal community representatives and officials from emergency management, public health, law enforcement, fire, cooperative extension, medical services, environmental health, veterinarians and other animal health professionals.

The Hazardous Materials Operations course provides attendees from all backgrounds with practical experiences in essential hazardous materials emergency response procedures as defined by National Fire Protection Agency 472 Standards for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents. Hazardous Materials Operations provides attendees with training to proficiency in hazardous materials identification, such as information on how to interpret hazard data from container shapes, placards, labels, shipping papers, and resources such as the Emergency Response Guide; equipment necessary for respiratory and skin protection during response to hazardous materials incidents; methods used to safely decontaminate hazardous materials victims and responders; and options available to physically control hazardous materials and mitigate the damage from a spill or release.

Barrier Precautions and Controls for Highly Infectious Disease (HID) is a three-day course that provides the student with the best practice knowledge and skill for triaging, transporting, transferring, treating, and managing persons with highly infectious diseases. Students participate in a guided discussion of best practices for managing and treating persons with a highly infectious disease from identification or presentation through conclusion and final outcome of treatment. Students receive demonstrations and practical experience in the proper donning and doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) required to prevent provider and other patient contamination. Lastly, students conduct a series of patient management and treatment exercises in a realistic healthcare setting to include presentation at an emergency room and treatment in a hospital isolation ward using best practice barrier precautions and infection control procedures.

The Active Threat Integrated Response Course (ATIRC) is a 24-hour performance level direct delivery course designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services (EMS) in active shooter events. The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care (TECC) guidelines which can be used at the point of injury (POI) to increase survivability of victims. The course also provides a model framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to integrate responses during an active shooter event through the rescue task force concept using the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist.

The Healthcare Coalition Response Leadership Course (HCRL) is based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare System and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Preparedness Capabilities, as well as best-practice procedures for healthcare-coalition building, preparedness, response, and recovery. The three-day course provides instruction and facilitated discussion in best practices and lessons learned in establishing an effective healthcare-coalition framework and conducting healthcare-coalition planning, as well as and achieving preparedness. The course provides instruction on the development of indicators, triggers, and tactics for proactive coalition planning; and approaches techniques, and instruction on the considerations for healthcare coalition response and recovery leadership. The course also provides extensive practical experience in healthcare coalition leadership team response through a series of progressive exercises designed to emulate realistic community and regional public health and medical emergencies.

This four-hour awareness-level course provides emergency managers, first responders, and community members across all sectors with a basic understanding of the latest knowledge in hurricane science, forecasting, warning, and preparedness.

This course provides an overview of the Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS), navigation in the system, and viewing information in the system. Attendees will be guided through the logging in process, as well as how to track shipments, inventory, and customer orders. This course spans several applications within the system.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the key functions and features of the Distributed Order Management and Enterprise Equipment Master applications and the role they play in the overall Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS). This course covers the process of how to receive, ship, and manage inventory at field sites. Attendees will be guided through Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN) receipt, dispatching, loading, and updating as well as closing distribution orders.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the key functions and features of the Distributed Order Management, Enterprise Equipment Master, and FieldScout applications and the role they play in the overall Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS). This course covers the process of how to receive, ship, and manage inventory at field sites. Attendees will be guided through Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN) receipt, dispatching, loading, and updating as well as closing distribution orders, and how to use FieldScout.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

The primary focus of this course will be the instrument operation skills needed by the first responders when responding to radiological or nuclear incident. This course serves a dual role for the response community. For the new responder the course provides a general overview of detection equipment, its selection, and its general operation. New operators should continue with their response training in order to gain the proper knowledge required to operate safely in the read/nuc environment. For the experience operator, the course provides a refresher on multiple detection platforms. The training will encompass basic operations of the following: dosimeters, Personal Radiation Detectors (PRDs), Human Portable Radiation Detectors (Backpacks), survey meters, portal monitors, and Radio-Isotope Identifier Devices (RIIDs).

The Prevention of and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents, Cutomized course is designed to provide emergency first responders with information on the skills to prevent and respond to suicide bombing incidents.Emergency first responders are presented with awareness level information on how to prevent, deter, and mitigate the effects of a suicide bomber along with active suicide bomber and post-blast response strategies.

This course provides understanding of the reporting structure of Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) and how to navigate, run reports, create ad-hoc reports, and schedule reports to better equip users in Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) with real-time data in order to aid in disaster response and cleanup.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

The purpose of this course is to provide end users with the fundamentals of how to place an order and the differences between order types. Users will be guided through the order entry process.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the process of how to approve an order, create/edit items, and perform the Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN) upload. Attendees will be guided through the order approval process, how to assign an approver for an order, how to edit a customer order that has been placed, how to create and edit an item, and how to perform the ASN upload.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides participants the opportunity to practice several end-to-end scenarios in the Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS), including reporting, shipping, and receiving.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the key functions and features of the Warehouse Management (WM) and User Interface (UI) application and the role it plays in the overall LSCMS system. Attendees will be guided through WMs overall purpose and how shipments, inventory, and orders are managed within the DC.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the key functions and features of the Warehouse Management (WM) User Interface (UI) portion within the WM application and the role it plays in the overall Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS). Attendees will be guided through multiple applications to learn how inventory is managed through the UI.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the key functions and features of working with shipments in the Transportation Planning and Execution (TP&E) application and the role it plays in the overall Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS). Attendees will be guided through TP&E’s overall purpose and how distribution orders and shipments are planned.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides the key functions and features of working with shipments in the Transportation Planning and Execution (TP&E) application and the role it plays in the overall Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS). Attendees will be guided through TP&Es overall purpose and how shipment attributes are managed. By the end of the course, the user should be able to manage carriers, accessorials, and spot charges as well as tender and manage shipments within TP&E.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.

Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.

This course provides an overview of LSCMS, navigation in the system, and viewing information in the system. Attendees will be guided through the logging in process, how to track Shipments, Inventory, and Customer Orders. This course spans several applications within the system.

This 2-day course is designed to introduce participants to the fundamentals of exercise design. Emergency managers, emergency services personnel, and individuals who are part of the emergency preparedness communities at all levels of government, private sector, or volunteer organizations need to be able to use the fundamentals of exercise simulation and design as an integrated system of resources and capabilities.This course is designed to develop exercising skills in the following areas:

Components of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for those who have an emergency management function in any Mission Area (Protection, Prevention, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation). The audience may include, but is not limited to: emergency managers, planners, first responders and supervisors, and representatives from the private sector and volunteer organizations. This training course is a requirement for the completion of EMI’s National Emergency Management Basic Academy.

Upon completion of this training and a follow-on mentoring assignment, this course provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed to perform effectively as HM SME Instructors in the delivery of the Hazard Mitigation Field Operations Curriculum.

This resident course is designed for local disaster recovery teams consisting of emergency managers, city/county administrators, public works directors, building inspectors, and community planners. The course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of each team member, and provides guidance on developing a local disaster recovery plan. Best practices in disaster recovery are summarized in a toolkit included in the course materials. Participants are given the opportunity to develop an outline of their own recovery plan during the course.

Selection Criteria:

Local elected official (Mayor, City/County Council Member)

Tribal Leaders

City/County Manager / Staff

City / County Planners/Staff

Regional Planning Commissions

Economic Development Districts

Finance Director/Assessor

Emergency Manager/Staff

Public Works Director/Staff

Building Inspector/Staff

Floodplain Manager/Staff

Health Care Administrator or Planner

Public Information Officer

Housing Director or Planner/Staff

Voluntary Agency Coordinator or Unmet Needs Committee Coordinator

Business Organization Representative

Administrative Director/Manager

State Recovery Staff and Partners (so they can be tuned into recovery at the local level)

This course familiarizes participants with the specific competencies, duties, and responsibilities of the Documentation Unit Leader. Participants must be aware of and understand FEMA, DHS, and other Federal guidelines pertinent to documenting and archiving disaster records. The course lays out the competencies for the position and provides opportunities to practice and demonstrate skills needed at an incident or event.

Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who will serve as a Documentation Unit Leader

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are an emerging technology poised to revolutionize disaster management. This eight-hour awareness level course is an introduction to UAS use in disaster management, from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery, to help emergency managers, first responders, and others understand the basics of this important emerging field. It is intended to help participants gain a basic understanding of UAS; learn the general concepts to help an agency build a successful UAS program; understand the FAA regulations of UAS; identify when UAS would enhance a disaster mission; understand the basics of UAS types and sensors; learn the importance of involving the local community in all stages of UAS program development; and understand the critical need to ensure that privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties are thoroughly addressed, including with data collection, retention, management, security, oversight, and accountability.

This eight-hour awareness-level course will prepare participants to describe the principles of climate adaptation planning for emergency management and first response processes. This course will train participants to be able to discuss the impact of weather hazards on critical infrastructure and key resources, and explain how climate change projects will affect those impacts. The processes of common weather hazards, climate variability, and climate change will be addressed alongside risk assessment paradigms.

The Master Public Information Officer Program (MPIOP) is the final component of the public information training series.

MPIOP is a three-course series that prepares public information officers for an expanded role in delivering public information and warning using a strategic whole community approach.

The program reinforces the qualities needed to lead whole community public information/external affairs programs, provides relevant management theories and concepts, and uses case studies to enhance public information/external affairs skill sets.

MPIOP participants work within a collaborative environment on projects and establish a network of peers and contribute to the body of knowledge for emergency management related public information. This includes evaluation of leadership, group dynamics and functional best practices of joint information centers by monitoring student activity during advanced public information officer course offerings.

The goals of the MPIOP are to:

Develop leaders who will advocate and be change agents for Public Information issues in their community and profession

Contribute to the Public Information body of knowledge through research

Develop leaders who will provide support, perspective and mentorship to PIOs around the country

The objectives of the MPIOP are to:

Increase the number of Public Information leaders, advocates and influencers in our communities

Grow the body of knowledge of Public Information issues within the emergency management community by institutionalizing and promoting research

Create an active network of experts in Public Information to provide support and perspective to Public Information leaders around the country

Advocate for diversity in the Public Information field

Selection Criteria: A formal application process will be published on the EMI Web site in the spring.

The Master Public Information Officer Program (MPIOP) is the final component of the public information training series.

MPIOP is a three-course series (E389/E393/E394) that prepares public information officers for an expanded role in delivering public information and warning using a strategic whole community approach.

The program reinforces the qualities needed to lead whole community public information/external affairs programs, provides relevant management theories and concepts, and uses case studies to enhance public information/external affairs skill sets.

MPIOP participants work within a collaborative environment on projects and establish a network of peers and contribute to the body of knowledge for emergency management related public information. This includes evaluation of leadership, group dynamics and functional best practices of joint information centers by monitoring student activity during advanced public information officer course offerings.

The goals of the MPIOP are to:

Develop leaders who will advocate and be change agents for Public Information issues in their community and profession

Contribute to the Public Information body of knowledge through research

Develop leaders who will provide support, perspective and mentorship to PIOs around the country

The objectives of the MPIOP are to:

Increase the number of Public Information leaders, advocates and influencers in our communities

Grow the body of knowledge of Public Information issues within the emergency management community by institutionalizing and promoting research

Create an active network of experts in Public Information to provide support and perspective to Public Information leaders around the country

Advocate for diversity in the Public Information field

During this second part of the MPIOP series, participants will attend an on-campus offering of the 0388 Advanced Public Information Officer course to evaluate an active Joint Information Center (JIC).

Using an objective driven evaluation plan,participants will review the organization, personnel management and interpersonal relationships of the JICs created during a functional exercise.

At the begining of the third part of the MPIOP (E0394), participants will compare after-action reports and develop a best practices report for inclusion in the Public Information Officer body of knowlege project.

Selection Criteria: See criteria for E0389, Master Public Information Officer.

The Master Public Information Officer Program (MPIOP) is the final component of the public information training series.

MPIOP is a three-course series (E0389/E0393/E0394) that prepares public information officers for an expanded role in delivering public information and warning using a strategic whole community approach.

The program reinforces the qualities needed to lead whole community public information/external affairs programs, provides relevant management theories and concepts, and uses case studies to enhance public information/external affairs skill sets.

MPIOP participants work within a collaborative environment on projects and establish a network of peers and contribute to the body of knowledge for emergency management related public information. This includes evaluation of leadership, group dynamics and functional best practices of joint information centers by monitoring student activity during advanced public information officer course offerings.

The goals of the MPIOP are:

To develop leaders who will advocate and be change agents for public information issues in their community and profession

To contribute to the public information body of knowledge through research

To develop leaders who will provide support, perspective and mentorship to PIOs around the country

At the begining of this third part of the MPIOP, participants will compare after-action reports from observations conducted during MPIO part two (E0393) and develop a best practices report for inclusion in the public information officer body of knowlege project.

Also during this final segment of the MPIOP, participants will continue reviewing various factors to be considered when developing whole community strategic communications plans.

This interactive course focuses on implementing inclusive emergency management principles in local communities, and how that approach can increase a community’s ability to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster. This course will provide tools to help community groups move beyond basic awareness and onto engaging activities that truly move the needle on resiliency. Students are expected to be active participants in this course to enhance their level of knowledge. As a course outcome, students will develop a roadmap to resiliency customized for their community, to include proven best practices for engagement and tested preparedness activities.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes community stakeholders interested in disaster resilience, as well as junior emergency management professionals who support or implement inclusive emergency management, community disaster planning, preparedness activities, and community outreach at the state and local levels. For the purposes of this course, junior emergency management professionals are considered those with less than three years of experience.

Surge Capacity Force (SCF) Staging Areas are activated during periods of intense disaster activity or multiple events during which FEMA’s response capabilities, heavily dependent upon manpower, are severely stressed. In order to ensure FEMA’s ability to support disaster response and recovery efforts, the Agency may activate pre-identified, non-emergency FEMA staff (Surge Capacity Force Personnel). Pre-designated SCF Staging Areas are established to register, train, and deploy the Surge Capacity Force. The goal of this course is to teach the successful transport, in-processing, training, and out-processing of all identified Tiered personnel.

Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be SCF members and specialists.

During a disaster, FEMA’s response operations must effectively acquire and distribute resources. In order to ensure FEMA’s ability to support disaster response and recovery efforts, the Agency may activate pre-identified, non-emergency Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component agencies’ employees as Surge Capacity Force Personnel. This course provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to function as a Surge Capacity Force Liaison with DHS agencies.

The External Affairs (EA) Specialist Training course provides participants with an overview of the Emergency Support Function #15 (ESF #15) components, enhancing knowledge of the EA critical functions at a Joint Field Office (JFO) in support of a disaster declaration. This course includes job title-specific breakout modules.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is EA staff—disaster reservists, cadre of on-call response/recovery employees, and permanent full-time employees with open Position Task Books at the Specialist level, designated as trainees. The ideal class size for this course is 30 to 40 participants. Participants will be determined by the Incident Workforce Management Division and the EA Cadre.

This 4-day course is designed to help participants prepare for success as a Human Resources (HR) Manager at a Joint Field Office (JFO). The course provides HR Managers with information on serving as a first-line supervisor to HR Specialists who execute the deployment, time and attendance, and recruiting and hiring functions.

Selection Criteria: The course is limited to FEMA HR cadre employees with the FQS title of HR Manager Trainee.

This course provides instruction and exercise on middle management leadership goals, procedures, policies, and strategies to develop the participants’ leadership abilities so they serve effectively as middle-managers in a disaster operation. In addition, participants will receive instruction in ICS 300: Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents, and ICS 400: Advanced Incident Command System for Command and General Staff—Complex Incidents, during the first week of this 2-week course schedule.

This 4-day course provides instruction and exercise of the skills and abilities that FEMA Command and General Staff must possess in order to be successful leading disaster operations. The leadership competencies that will be addressed in this course have been grouped into three over-arching topics: Strategic and Critical Thinking; Collaboration and Communication; and Program Management. This course includes a Gettysburg Battlefield staff ride, led by a certified Gettysburg guide, focusing on the historical elements of Civil War campaigns and leadership competencies as they apply to FEMA leadership of the Joint Field Office.

This 5-day course is designed to help participants prepare for success as a Human Resources (HR) Specialist at a Joint Field Office. The course provides HR Specialists with the basics in five main areas including:

Deployment Function

Recruiting and Hiring Function

Time and Attendance Function

Employee Relations

Employee Services

Selection Criteria: The course is limited to FEMA HR cadre employees with the FQS title of HR Specialist Trainee and to Finance and Admin Chief Candidates.

The goal of this course is to identify the financial functions and actions of the Logistics Section at the Incident Management level, to understand the necessity of coordination amongst incident stakeholders, and to enable participants to apply sound principles and practices involving fiscal management and accountability.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA Logistics personnel with financial responsibilities at a disaster. Positions include

Logistics Section Chiefs

Support, Service, and External Branch Directors

Ordering Unit Lead

Ordering Manager

Ordering Specialist

Logistics Systems Manager

Logistics Systems Specialist

Note: Students with credentials in multiple disciplines are prime student candidates.

This course will focus on the tools and techniques for understanding and managing emergencies and disasters by examining the executive level competencies areas of disaster risk management, scientific, geographic and sociocultural considerations and emerging technology application and adoption.

Selection Criteria: Formal acceptance into the Executive Academy is required.

The goal of this course is to build expertise across FEMA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisors (ADRAs). The course will enhance the ability of ADRA members to support the FEMA mission and increase the recognition of the crucial role of ADR. The course seeks to deepen and strengthen success in disaster field operations by exploring the nuances of embedded practice. An important focus will be the use of best practices in workplace ADR. The course will provide participants with a dynamic and interactive learning experience. It is an annual continuing education event for all cadre members. Each year the theme and focus will be formulated to meet current ADR requirements.

FEMA External Affairs (EA) includes five functional areas: Congressional Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs, Joint Information Center, Planning and Products, and Private Sector. Each of these areas is led by an Assistant External Affairs Officer (AEAO) charged with creating a strategic plan for the individual function while supporting the overall EA mission. To enhance management of personnel and facilitate the EA mission, managers are assigned to various components. These managers specialize in specific sub-functions of EA, managing staff within an Incident Command System-designated span of control.

This course builds on the technical foundation established in E0475, External Affairs Specialist Training.This course will prepare participants to serve as a manager within the EA structure at the Joint Field Office.

Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be members of the External Affairs Cadre. They will be designated by FEMA Headquarters EA Training and Cadre Management and must possess an open FEMA Qualification System Task Book for a Manager or Assistant Manager position.

FEMA External Affairs (EA) includes five functional areas: Congressional Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs, Joint Information Center, Planning and Products, and Private Sector. Each of these areas is led by an Assistant External Affairs Officer (AEAO) charged with creating a strategic plan for the individual function while supporting the overall EA mission.

To be successful, the AEAO must be skillful in managing programs, leading people, and working collaboratively. While several FEMA courses touch on these subject areas and, in fact, may be required training for AEAOs, this course relates these competencies to the EA environment.

This course builds on the technical foundation established in E0475, External Affairs Specialist Training, as well as E0739, Intermediate External Affairs, and other FEMA management training. This course will prepare participants to serve as an AEAO at the Joint Field Office.

Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be members of the EA Cadre. They will be designated by FEMA Headquarters EA Training and Cadre Management and must possess an open FEMA Qualification System Position Task Book for an Assistant External Affairs Officer position.

This course is designed to prepare FEMA employees to serve as Air Operations Branch Directors and Air Operations Coordinators. In order to be successful in their jobs, Branch Directors and Coordinators must understand FEMA’s responsibilities related to air operations and coordinate with relevant FEMA, Federal, and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) partners to achieve incident objectives.

Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who requirethis courseas part of their FQS required training candidates/trainees from the OPS, LOG and PA Cadres.

This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to apply the phases of the incident action planning process effectively when assigned to a Joint Field Office during an incident requiring FEMA assistance. This is a performance-based course, where the attendees participate in meetings during a planning “P” operational period and critique components of an Incident Action Plan (IAP).

Selection Criteria: The target audience is for any Planning Section Unit Leader or above and is strongly recommended for all other Command and General Staff members. In addition, the following Incident Command System positions are encouraged to attend:

This course serves as a training opportunity for FEMA personnel to identify and practice the essential core competencies required when performing the duties of the Geospatial Information System Manager (GIMG) and the Geospatial Information System Unit Leader (GIUL) positions, in alignment with the FEMA Position Task Books (PTBs) and Qualification Sheets. The goal of this course is to prepare participants to effectively assume the role of GIMG or GIUL and to start building the skills required for that position. This course lays out the behaviors and activities for each position and provides opportunities to practice and demonstrate skills needed at an incident or event. This course is one of the initial steps towards becoming a certified and qualified GIMG and GIUL.

Selection Criteria: Recommended for GIMG or GIUL trainees that have been issued a PTB by a certifying official, as outlined in the FEMA Qualification System. Or, state and local GIS employees that have equivalent experience.

The purpose of the training is to enable course participants to provide accurate and up-to-date information to disaster survivors regarding all Individual Assistance (IA) programs and how to mentor less experienced IA field staff.

This course is designed to provide IT Manager trainees and candidates with the formal academic training needed to manage telephony, network, and end-user services at the disaster site, and to prepare ITMGs to complete their qualification requirements in a field environment. Topics include pre-deployment coordination, site setup, server and Private Branch Exchange (PBX) administration, personnel management, customer service quality control and assurance, and IT Security.

Selection Criteria: FEMA IT Manager trainees and candidates. All nominations will be submitted through the National IT Cadre Manager.

Introduction to Radiological/Nuclear WMD Operations For Law Enforcement

Mobile/Non-Resident, Residential

CTOS

4.0

Law Enforcement, Other

Planning, Planning

Protect

NTED

Introduction to Radiological/Nuclear WMD Operations For Law Enforcement, AWR-346, provides critical response training to participants who, in the course of their duties could be tasked with responding to a radiological/nuclear incident. The course is designed to provide Law Enforcement personnel with baseline knowledge to effectively and safely make decisions within their agency scope of operation dealing with radiological incidents. Topics presented include an update on current terrorism activity, an overview of the Preventive Radiological Nuclear Detection (PRND) mission, basic radiation concepts, radiation measurement terms and units, recognizing radiological/nuclear incidents, and what information will be needed during the notification process. The last module provides information on protective actions which may be employed and or supported by law enforcement personnel.

This eight-hour performance-level course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to use social media tools and techniques for intermediate-level messaging, strategy, and increased situational awareness. This course builds upon the existing PER-304 Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery course by providing more participants with a more in-depth training in the use of strategy, tools, and messaging techniques in the use of social media. It goes beyond the implementation of the most popular tools and strategies and helps social media managers expand their organization’s social media presence in various platforms to different audiences, in partnership with other agencies and organizations. This course will also give participants a better understanding of data mining and crowdsourcing techniques through practical activities and discuss potential uses for data visualization and mobile apps.

This curriculum is designed to address specific fundamentals and skills associated with an emergency response at the specialist level to a highway emergency involving HazMat/WMD. The HERS course teaches the technical skills and knowledge required for the safe response to HazMat/WMD incidents involving highway transportation, including cargo tanks, IM containers, and freight vans. Participants will conduct incident site assessments, container damage assessments, and containment of leaking HazMat containers. The HERS course will also provide technical knowledge on methods to conduct product removal and transfer techniques for various Department of Transportation (DOT) containers used in highway transportation. The skills acquired at this specialty course are above and beyond that of a HazMat/WMD technician. This curriculum provides the technical knowledge and extensive hands-on practice on a full-scale scenario-based highway incident that will train the responder to safely mitigate a highway emergency involving HazMat/WMD.

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria:

All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified ASGS; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a ASGS on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course is designed to assist the student in his or her preparation to function effectively as under the NIMS/Incident Command System.

Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.

The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.

The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).

Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:

Have completed the course they desire to teach prior to applying for acceptance into the Train-the-Trainer program

Be a fully qualified ASGS; completed Position Task Book (PTB)

Have documented experience serving as a ASGS on Type 3, Type 2 or Type 1 AHIMT(S)

This course introduces Logistics Managers to the most widely used functions of the Sunflower Asset Management System (SAMS) software and prepares all participants to use SAMS in real-world scenarios through lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities.

The goal of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to use SAMS during a disaster to effectively manage the routing and tracking of supplies.

Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA Logistics Personnel such as Accountable Property Officer, Accountable Property Specialist, Property Management Officer, Ordering Unit Lead, Logistics Chief (in case they came through a different route than APO).

This 1-day course is an introduction to the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC’s) forecast procedures and products and the National Hurricane Program’s tools for how to incorporate them into planning and response. Topics include hurricane hazards, how forecasters use model guidance, readiness checklists, decision aids, and evacuation planning.

Selection Criteria: Local emergency staff from coastal state/communities that are involved in the hurricane decision-making process

Orientation to Mission Assignments for FEMA Staff and Interagency Partners

Mobile/Non-Resident

EMI

14.0

Emergency Management

N/A - Training and Education

Respond, Recover

EMI

This course is intended to provide FEMA and its partners with the knowledge of how to request Federal assistance through the Resource Request and Mission Assignment (MA) processes including reimbursement, billing, and close-out.

This seminar-style course offers a whole government/community perspective for disaster/humanitarian relief logistics. The course is 4½ academic days long and is unclassified (no security clearance required). The Interagency Logistics (IL) Seminar focuses on national- and international-level logistics operations by providing military and civilian stakeholders with insights into interagency logistics planning and execution.

The objectives of the course are accomplished through the use of dynamic lectures provided by experts in the field of disaster operations and logistics with threaded discussions that are interspersed with mini and culminating case study activities. Current policy, doctrine, theory, and processes are addressed.

The IL Seminar provides participants with the opportunity to develop and define the authorities, attributes, needs, and perspectives of a National Logistics Coordinator as described in Emergency Support Function (ESF) #7, Logistics Management and Resource Support, of the National Response Framework (NRF). Additionally, this course provides insights and explores potential solutions necessary to manage logistics at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels during a national disaster/incident.

The course includes a number of guest lecturers from DHS/FEMA, Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration, states, non-governmental organizations, private sector, and other Federal departments and agencies. All material is non-testable. Participants will be granted access to the Interagency Logistics Portal for presentations and other relevant course material.

Selection Criteria: Participants should be mid-to-senior-level logistics managers from organizations such as DHS, FEMA, and the Military services (Active, Guard, Reserve). Military officers (O-4 through O-6), warrant officers (W-3 through W-5), senior non-commissioned officers (E-8 through E-9), or DOD civilians (GS-12 through GS-15 or equivalent) assigned to, or en route to, a position requiring Interagency logistics knowledge. Civilians from non-governmental and volunteer agencies are invited to attend. International Logistics Exchange Officers assigned to a U.S. joint level or multi-national staff billet are eligible to attend. All others not falling into one of the above categories by either rank or duties, but feel they may benefit from this course, may attend pending approval.

This course will provide designated Custodial Officers with the knowledge and resources to professionally and accurately fulfill their responsibilities for effective property management.

Selection Criteria: The audience consists of anyone in any FEMA facility charged with the responsibility and accountability for acquisition, utilization, maintenance, and disposal of any Government Personal Property.

This course will provide selected individuals with a foundation of knowledge and skills to successfully fulfill their duties as they become FEMA property management professionals.

Selection Criteria: The audience consists of anyone in any FEMA facility charged with the responsibility and accountability for acquisition, utilization, maintenance, and disposal of any Government Personal Property.

This course provides participants with the basic knowledge of the elements of property management. This course is mandatory for the Accountable Property Officer credentialing process and is only available to FEMA staff. It is accessible through the FEMA Employee Knowledge Center.

Selection Criteria: The target population for this training program is broad and includes FEMA personnel at all levels that have been assigned Accountable Receiving Officer duties. These personnel include: FEMA Headquarters Management, Administrative, Procurement, and Reporting; Warehouse Supervisors and Managers; and FEMA Field Personnel at sites including Incident Support Bases.

This course is designed to help you understand your safety rights, responsibilities, and what you can do to safeguard your own well-being on the job—both in your regular workplace and during deployments.

New FEMA employees are required to successfully complete this course within 90 days of their FEMA appointment. In addition, if the FEMA employee is a reservist, he/she must successfully complete the training one time every calendar year. Full-time employees will complete this course as their required training.

The goal of this workshop is to provide an orientation to the Hazard Mitigation (HM) Management functional organization and activities of the organization, sources of information for the function, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular function. This course is not intended to enable Specialist trainees to successfully demonstrate the ability to perform behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books. Additional training is provided on the job and through other courses identified in the Position Qualification Sheet.

Selection Criteria: This workshop is designed for new HM Management support staff, including:

HM Data Integration Specialists

HM Training Specialists

HM Administrative Assistants

HM Emergency Support Function Liaisons

HM Property Damage Assessment (PDA) Specialist is also an HM Management support position; however, that position title is only assigned as a secondary title to staff who are qualified in another HM Specialist title. HM PDA Specialists will have completed the HM Functional Workshop associated with their primary title, and they could benefit from attending this one. A secondary audience is HM Program Support Managers who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.

The Hazard Mitigation (HM) Disaster Operations courses are intended to provide a segue between the general hazard mitigation training provided in the introductory course and the function they will learn in a field assignment. These HM Disaster Operations courses are not intended to enable new employees to successfully complete all the requirements of their disaster assignment. The HM courses provide an orientation to the HM functional organization and activities of the organization, sources of information for the function, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular function.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM Community Planner staff. A secondary audience is HM Planning Specialist Experts and HM Planning supervisors who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review. HM Grants Specialists will benefit from this course as there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.

The Hazard Mitigation (HM) Disaster Operations courses are intended to provide a segue between the general hazard mitigation training provided in the introductory course and the function they will learn in a field assignment. These HM Disaster Operations courses are not intended to enable new employees to successfully complete all the requirements of their disaster assignment. The HM courses provide an orientation to the HM functional organization and activities of the organization, sources of information for the function, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular function.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM HPA staff. A secondary audience is the Specialist Expert and Crew Leader positions in HM HPA who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.

The Hazard Mitigation (HM) Disaster Operations courses are intended to provide a segue between the general hazard mitigation training provided in the introductory course and the function they will learn in a field assignment. These HM Disaster Operations courses are not intended to enable new employees to successfully complete all the requirements of their disaster assignment. The HM courses provide an orientation to the HM functional organization and activities of the organization, sources of information for the function, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular function.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM HPA staff. A secondary audience is the Specialist Expert and Crew Leader positions in HM HPA who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.

This course is for Hazard Mitigation (HM) Community Education and Outreach (CEO) Specialist trainees. It provides an orientation to the HM functional organization and its activities, and introduces the function and products of HM CEO. Participants will learn how to refer to key authorities, programs, and resources related to HM CEO in disaster operations, and how to identify key people and organizations. Additionally, the course identifies some of the critical issues that indicate a need for special handling or collaboration.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM CEO staff. A secondary audience is HM CEO Specialist Experts and Crew Leaders who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.

The purpose of this course is to educate students in the process of developing quality mitigation planning and project grant application elements for the Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs.

Selection Criteria: The course is intended for personnel of state and local governments, tribal governments, and private non-profit organizations that are eligible applicants or sub-applicants under HMA grants; and FEMA employees assigned to HMA grant activities.

This course is designed to teach environmental and historic preservation (EHP) practitioners about the Unified Federal Review (UFR) process in order to improve interagency coordination and conduct more efficient and effective EHP reviews for disaster recovery projects.

This course is designed to help Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinators (FDRC) and Federal Coordinating Officers (FCO) understand how to implement the Unified Federal Review (UFR) process and the key roles that they play in the UFR process.

This course is for emergency managers and related professionals who work with all types of volunteers and coordinate with voluntary organizations. It will provide procedures and tools for building and working with voluntary organizations. Topics include benefits and challenges of working with volunteers; building a volunteer program; writing job descriptions; developing volunteers through recruitment; coordinating with voluntary and community-based organizations; and special issues such as spontaneous volunteers, liability, and stress.

This course is designed as an introduction to the fundamental concepts of benefit-cost analysis (BCA). Participants will learn how to obtainbenefit-costdata and conduct analyses using the latest version of the Benefit Cost Toolkit. This course will not teach how to conduct a level-two BCA.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is Federal, state, local, and tribal hazard mitigation staff; applicants/grantees; subapplicants/subgrantees; and personnel who are involved in the grant application development process and provide technical assistance.

This course is designed to provide essential, non-technical information about retrofitting existing flood-prone residential structures as presented in the 3rd edition of FEMA Publication 259, Engineering Principles and Practices for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures (FEMA 2012).

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.

Religious and cultural communities are part of the whole community, and the DHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships works to form partnerships between the Federal Government and faith-based and neighborhood organizations to more effectively serve Americans in need.

As part of this effort, in partnership with the University of Southern California Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE), this course and its companion tip sheet resources have been developed with the University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) and the National Disaster Interfaiths Network. In addition, FEMA personnel assisted the development of the course by providing their relevant expertise responding to disasters.

The course provides emergency management professionals and faith and community leaders active in disaster with the religious literacy and competency tools needed to learn how to effectively engage religious and cultural groups and their leaders throughout the disaster lifecycle.

This course provides an introduction to the role of public works departments in community emergency management. The training is intended to help communities improve their emergency management efforts regarding the functions of public works agencies prior to, during, and after disasters.

Selection Criteria: Public works professionals, urban planners, local government officials, and elected officials

Ensuring the security and resilience of the critical infrastructure of the United States is essential to the Nation’s security, public health and safety, economic vitality, and way of life. The purpose of this course is to present an overview of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). The NIPP provides the unifying structure for the integration of existing and future critical infrastructure security and resilience efforts into a single national program.

This course provides student with Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) information to assist and guide policyholders through the mitigation claims process after a flood loss, while collaborating with the local community. Increased Cost of Compliance course provides an overview of ICC coverage and eligibility and takes the learner through the claims process to gain a better understanding of this important coverage benefit.

This course is intended to provide insurance agents an introduction to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and help them to gain an understanding of fundamental aspects of the program including general policy rules, regulations, flood map usage, proper rating methods and claims handling processes.

This course is to guide insurance professionals, particularly agents, through the steps to properly determine the Lowest Floor Elevation for Post-FIRM Buildings in A or V zones as shown on the FEMA Elevation Certificate. Due to BW-12 legislation and HFIAA-14, elevation certificates play a more crucial role in determining a policyholder’s premium rate.

Selection Criteria:The primary audience for this course is property and casualty insurance agents who are rating buildings and selling flood insurance.

This course provides an in-depth look at the Elevation Certificate (EC) along with relevant resources to answer your questions. This is a four-lesson series for surveyors on how to accurately and thoroughly complete the EC, which helps agents determine the proper flood insurance premium rate. Properly completed ECs also aid local floodplain administrators in determining how high to elevate buildings located in the Special Flood Hazard Area to reduce flood risk.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is Land Surveyors and other licensed professionals who may be retained to produce an FEMA NFIP elevation certificate. The secondary audience for this course is floodplain management professionals.

New and experienced adjusters seeking the necessary knowledge and skill to adjust claims for the NFIP will find Claims Review for Adjusters essential for adjusting NFIP claims. This course defines the role, standards and necessary requirements to adjust claims within the NFIP. In addition, it offers an overview of the Standard Flood Insurance Policy through a step by step outline of the similarities and contrasts found in the Dwelling Form, General Property Form, and the Residential Condominium Building Association Policy. With a focus on providing excellent customer service, this course also identifies common errors and adjustment issues where special attention is needed to ensure a high level of quality in the claims settlement process.

A flood might be one of the most traumatic events a person can experience. As one of the first people to interact with the policyholder after a flood, you, the adjuster, play a critical role in representing the National Flood Insurance Program. A customer-centric focus can result in claims being closed faster, with fewer appeals, and happier policyholders.

This course reviews the different ways that condominiums can be written in the NFIP and what makes condominiums unique - in other words, what sets them apart from other building types that are written in the National Flood Insurance Program. Rich Slevin of NFIP Training will lead you through a series of video segments covering topics relevant to condominiums in the NFIP. Knowledge checks following the segments help you check your understanding and reinforce the subject matter.

This course provides an introduction to commercial claims. It covers small and large commercial claims, certification requirements and adjuster authority, the General Property Form, NFIP documentation requirements, and adjustment standards and requirements. Then case studies are used for the students to apply the information discussed.

During an active storm season, NFIP flood-certified adjusters can be in high demand to assist property owners with claims that meet the general condition of flood. This course is designed to introduce adjusters to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The first lesson reviews the necessary qualifications and process to become a flood adjuster and the resources available to help adjusters learn what they need to know to become flood certified. The second lesson discusses the history and organization of the NFIP, provides an overview of the Standard Flood Insurance Policy (SFIP) and use of its three forms, and defines key terms and concepts that flood claims adjusters must know in order to accurately handle flood claims.

This course is designed to assist insurance agents with their understanding of the Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) and Otherwise Protected Areas (OPAs). Agents must correctly identify buildings located in or near these protected areas to determine eligibility for flood insurance. In this course, we will review flood zones affected by the Act, describe the designation process, and discuss building eligibility in these designated areas on the NFIP flood insurance rate map.

This course provides awareness-level training on the triggers related to various disease containment measures as well as detailed information on the declaration, implementation, and demobilization efforts required during these type of events. The course focuses on the roles of community agencies as well as how these agencies must integrate their efforts to successfully respond to a disease-related emergency. Case studies are used to provide real-life exposure to social distancing, quarantine, and isolation events.

This 3-day course addresses the practicalities of conducting successful interactions, managing the classroom experience, and making presentations. It covers the basics of adult learning and of training evaluation for those wanting more experience in this area.

Participants have several opportunities to practice presentation and instructional skills, first as spokespersons for small groups, then during short duo presentations, 3-minute individual presentations, and, finally, 20-minute individual presentations, using material related to their own programs or functions. Detailed feedback is provided.

A large number of job aids are provided to help in the application of training skills. To prepare for the 20-minute presentation, participants should come to class with materials from a pre-existing course that is related to their work.

Selection Criteria: Federal, State Tribal and local staff designated to train in various EM subject areas. Also, subject matter experts who have the responsibility to delivertraining.

This course is the condensed version of the 4-day E0210 resident course. This course covers foundational concepts in disaster recovery and the latest guidance on recovery planning. Participants will either assess their own recovery plan or a sample against this national planning guidance. Following that, participants will discuss how a disaster recovery effort can be organized, managed, and led along with the types of challenges faced by recovery managers. Scenario activities throughout the course give participants the opportunity to target information strategies, and address local capabilities and challenges. They will also analyze lessons learned from Joplin, Missouri. While this is normally a 2.5 day course, in time of disaster, it can be shortened for immediate need in training the basics of recovery based on local need and covers the roles and responsibilities of local recovery team members.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for local elected officials (mayor, city/county council member), tribal leaders, city/county manager/staff, city/county planners/staff, regional planning commissions, economic development districts, finance director/assessor, emergency manager/staff, public works director/staff, building inspector/staff, floodplain manager/staff, health care administrator or planner, public information officer, housing director or planner/staff, voluntary agency coordinator or unmet needs committee coordinator, business organization representative, administrative director/manager, state recovery staff and partners (so they can be tuned into recovery at the local level)

This course offers training in the fundamentals of the emergency planning process, including the rationale behind planning. It will develop the capability for effective participation in the all-hazard emergency operations planning process to save lives, protect property and the enviornment threatened by disaster.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for emergency management personnel who are involved in developing an effective emergency planning system.

This course is designed to familiarize participants with floodplain mapping purposes and process. The impact and cost consequences of map updates, coordination of the map process, gaining public and political support, using Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) and backup data, and other topics will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.

Public information consists of the processes, procedures and systems to communicate timely, accurate and accessible information to affected audiences. Armed with good information, people are better able to make good decisions and, by doing so, contribute to the overall response goal of saving lives and protecting property. Personnel tasked with gathering, verifying, coordinating and disseminating public information at the federal, state, tribal, local and territorial levels bear this considerable responsibility concurrently with other job assignments. These PIOs must be provided with the opportunity to learn and practice the skills they will use on the job.

The one-day Public Information Officer Awareness Course (G0289) is designed to familiarize participants with the concepts underlying the PIO role. This course can provide a basic understanding of the PIO function for those new to the position. Additionally, it can provide those in executive level roles the necessary knowledge of PIO roles and responsibilities during an emergency.

This is the first course in the Public Information Training Series.

This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other, enhancing participants’ skills further at each level. This course uses Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.

This course is equivalent to the IS0029 course found on the EMI Independent Study Web site.

This course will introduce the participants to the public information function and the role of the PIO in the public safety/emergency management environment.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who have public information responsibilities as their main job or as an auxiliary function at the federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial level of government, and in the private and nongovernmental sectors.

A secondary audience for this training includes individuals who would benefit from a general understanding of the emergency public information function. This audience would include elected and other officials (e.g., dispatchers, receptionists) who may work with PIOs or with the news media during an incident or have initial media contact outside an incident through the course of their job.

UPSBI addresses the issues involved in school bomb threats; and designing safe and effective response plans for school bomb incidents. In addition, UPSBI provides the tools and information needed to develop or assess an existing school bomb incident response plan. The course has numerous resources which include full text documents concerning school emergency management plans, the threat assessment process, planning a functional school training program, and links to FEMA online training for school administrators.

Public information consists of the processes, procedures and systems to communicate timely, accurate and accessible information to affected audiences. Armed with good information, people are empowered to make better decisions and thus contribute to the overall response goal of saving lives and protecting property. Personnel tasked with gathering, verifying, coordinating and disseminating public information at the federal, state, tribal, local and territorial levels bear this considerable responsibility concurrently with other job assignments. These Public Information Officers (PIOs) must be provided with the opportunity to learn and practice the skills they will use on the job.

The Basic Public Information Officer Course (G0290) is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to start applying basic concepts underlying the Public Information Officer (PIO) role. This course can provide a basic understanding of the PIO function for those new to the position.

This is the second course in the Public Information Training Series. This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other enhancing students’ skills further at each level. This course uses Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.

This course will consider the value of communication before, during and after an incident. It will help PIOs identify critical audiences, both internal and external.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who have public information responsibilities as their main job or as an auxiliary function at the federal, state, local, tribal or territorial level of government, and in the private and nongovernmental sectors.

Joint Information System/Center Planning for Tribal, State, and Local Public Information Officers

Indirect

EMI

7.0

Emergency Management

Public Information and Warning

Common

EMI

Public information consists of the processes, procedures, and systems to communicate timely, accurate, and accessible information to affected audiences. Armed with good information, people are better able to make good decisions and, by doing so; contribute to the overall response goal of saving lives and protecting property. Personnel tasked with gathering, verifying, coordinating, and disseminating public information at the federal, state, tribal, local, and territorial levels bear this considerable responsibility concurrently with other job assignments. These Public Information Officers (PIOs) must be provided with the opportunity to learn and practice the skills they will use on the job.

This course is designed for PIOs with experience in the field who will be working in a JIS/JIC. This is the third course in the Public Information Training Series. This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other enhancing students’ skills further at each level. This course uses Blooms Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.

(This course is equivalent to E/L0387)

This course will outline the communications needed for different incidents and define the roles of the PIO within ICS.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who have public information responsibilities as their main job or as an auxiliary function at the federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial level of government, and in the private and nongovernmental sectors.

This course prepares state and local response personnel and other responsible agencies and professionals to handle mass fatalities effectively and to work with the survivors in an emergency or disaster.

This course covers incident management; mass fatalities; planning before and operations during an incident; establishing the morgue; family assistance support operations; and assistance from the Federal government. The course concludes with a tabletop exercise.Participants will learn to identify the characteristics of a mass fatality incident and identify the roles and responsibilities of key personnel in the incident. In addition, the instructor will describe the steps required to respond to a mass fatalities incident, including catastrophic numbers of fatalities and contaminated remains, and help participants determine their jurisdiction’s preparedness for a mass fatalities event.

Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is local responders who may have responsibility for the recovery, handling, identification, and return of remains following a mass fatalities incident.

This course explores the role, design, and functions of Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and their relationships as components of a Multi-Agency Coordination System (MACS). The course contains disaster-related examples, activities, and case studies that relate to EOCs and MACS at the Federal, state, and local levels of government.

Selection Criteria: This course is open to all Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers; first responders to include Incident Commanders from all emergency management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster personnel.

The course is designed to assist jurisdictions with coordinating and managing response efforts between emergency response organizations and critical infrastructure cybersecurity personnel, necessary as a result of a cyber incident. The course will help to ensure that traditional emergency management personnel and cybersecurity personnel recognize the importance of working together to mitigate the effects of a cyber incident.This course utilizes the Emergency Management Exercise System (EM*ES) incident simulation software which provides many features that resemble or imitate actual incident management systems. Delivered with Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service / National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (TEEX/NERRTC)

The purpose of this course is to provide emergency medical responders and healthcare clinicians with knowledge in on-scene and hespital-based triage and treatment of chemcial, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) victims in a mass casualty incident.

Through this course, responders receive instruction in the means for providing care to CBRNE mass casualty victims; knowledge and practical experience in the safe donning, operating in, and doffing of PPE; basic knowledge of the procedures for decontaminating CBRNE victims and responders; and practical experience in the execution of tagging, triaging, and treatment protocols for mass casualty victims of a CBRNE incident.

This course provides higher education campus administrators, campus emergency management teams and their community partners a forum to address the full-spectrum of emergency preparedness; prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery as it relates to critical incidents affecting college campus and places specific emphasis on the unique aspects and challenges associated with higher education institutions. Participants learn to effectively manage a critical incident by applying an all-hazards, multi-disciplinary, community approach based on the National Incident Management System’s (NIMS) Incident Command System (ICS). The course is delivered through a combination of lecture and team activities, and culminates with instructor-led, role play exercise customized to the community in which the course is delivered.

This course provides students foundational knowledge on the DHS risk management process and bomb threat management procedures and gives students the opportunity to apply this knowledge to the evaluation of a bomb threat management plan.

The purpose of this BMAP Administrators Training course is to provide supervisors, trainers, and other select representatives with the information and skills required to instruct the Bomb-Making Materials Awareness Program (BMAP) Outreach Officers course.

The Protective Measures Awareness VILT serves as an overview for the instructor-led Protective Measures course. Therefore, this course provides learners foundational knowledge on risks, risk management, and the three rings of security: physical protective measures, procedural/technical protective measures, and intelligence protective measures. Additionally, this VILT course serves as a marketing tool for the two-day instructor-led Protective Measures course, helping learners to determine if the course interests them and applies to their learning needs.

The Homemade Explosive (HME) and Precursor Awareness VILT serves as a prerequisite VILT for the instructor-led IED Search Procedures course and Bomb-Making Materials Awareness Program (BMAP) course. It is also intended to share general HME and precursor awareness information to a broad audience. This course provides learners foundational knowledge on HMEs and the common precursor materials that are used to create them.

The IED Explosive Effects Mitigation VILT introduces learners to the effects of an explosive blast. The course will detail the difference between blast, thermal/incendiary, and fragmentation effects and describe the destructive consequences of each type of effect on the target. For purposes of this course, targets can be both living and non-living (e.g., infrastructure, equipment, etc.). Finally, the course will touch upon security measures and best practices that can help prevent or mitigate explosive effects; although, this content is covered in much more depth in the Protective Measures Awareness VILT and the Protective Measures course.

This VILT serves as an overview of appropriate responses to suspicious behaviors and items. Therefore, the knowledge provided is general and foundational and is meant to increase awareness of the indicators of suspicious behavior and the basic responses if suspicious behaviors and/or items are suspected.

The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Construction and Classification VILT serves as a prerequisite VILT for the instructor-led IED Search Procedures and Bomb-Making Materials Awareness Program (BMAP) courses. It is also intended to share general homemade explosive (HME) and precursor awareness information to a broad audience; therefore, this course provides learners foundational knowledge on the construction and classification of IEDs.

The Introduction to the Terrorist Attack Cycle VILT introduces a conceptual model of common steps in planning and executing terrorist attacks. By learning how terrorists operate, learners will be better able to counter potential attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by being able to identify the signs of a possible attack and responding appropriately and effectively. This course enhances learners’ awareness and capability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate attacks that use IEDs against people, critical infrastructure, and other soft targets.

Emergency Management, Law Enforcement, Public Safety Communications, Security and Safety

Physical Protective Measures

Protect

CDP

This course provides learners the foundational knowledge to identify risks and vulnerabilities to a facility, venue, or event and to identify various types of protective measures to mitigate an IED threat. Learners have the opportunity to apply concepts introduced throughout the course with hands-on activities.

The purpose of this course is to equip federal, military, state, tribal, territorial, and local entities who provide mid-level reachback support with the analysis skills and knowledge necessary to rapidly analyze gamma-ray spectra, identify the radionuclides involved, and ultimately perform initial adjudication of radiation alarms. A major component of the course is focused on mastery of the PeakEasy spectroscopy analysis software tool for radionuclide identification. A secondary focus of the course emphasizes proficiency in escalating radiation alarm events to Triage for adjudication when mid-level reachback is insufficient to rule out a potential threat.

The FEMA/NPD/THD/Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program has developed an Instructor-Led course that will assist Federal, State, tribal and local emergency managers more effectively meet the planning challenges presented to the emergency responder community during a radiological incident at a NRC-licensed commercial nuclear power plant.

The awareness-level 0.5 day course will focus specifically and be limited to the REP planning methodology that already exists. This methodology goes beyond the planning guidance provided in CPG- 101 and incorporates the unique planning aspects of FEMA’s REP Program.

The Surveillance Detection for Law Enforcement & Security Professionals Course provides the participant instruction on how to detect hostile surveillance by exploring surveillance techniques, tactics, and procedures from a hostile perspective. These skills enhance counter-IED capabilities of law enforcement and security professionals to detect, prevent, protect against, and respond to IED threats.

This course provides first responders from multiple disciplines with skills to manage the initial response to a large-scale attack in a chaotic environment during a complex coordinated attack (CCA). It aims to train responders in how to use intuitive skills such as observation, analysis, anticipation, and awareness to recognize the possibility of an attack involving multiple incidents of an extreme magnitude that inundate resources, exceed conventional tactics and strategies, and often require a joint response involving members from multiple disciplines and jurisdictions. Topics for discussion include recognizing the characteristics of a potential CCA; coordinating and integrating the response of multiple disciplines and agencies; managing resources; using information gathering and sharing to develop awareness; and solving problems using creative thinking. Participants will learn to gather and disseminate critical information accordingly in order to facilitate rapid analysis. They will also learn to recognize and prevent potential response obstacles or risks to safety including self-deployment and over convergence of assets. Participants will apply the skills learned in Critical Decision Making for Complex Coordinated Attacks through interactive activities, facilitated discussion, and practical application in a training environment.

The course focuses on local preparedness efforts as they relate to the national approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience. An understanding of the national approach to critical infrastructure enables critical infrastructure stakeholders to address local planning within a common framework. Informed planning is consistent with and expands on nationally accepted emergency management standards as the basis for planning across the mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

This is a shortened version of E/L0291 Community Dam Safety, Preparedness and Mitigation. It is about how Dam Safety is not just the responsibility of the owner and operator of the dam. The best way to reduce, mitigate, or eliminate the risks of flooding resulting from normal dam operations and dam failure is for the entire community to work together to reduce the effects of a potential dam failure by increasing preparedness, reducing potential consequences, improving communications, and land use planning.

This two-day course will teach dam owners; emergency service providers; emergency planners and managers; land use and transportation planners; community leaders; and other members of the community to work together through upfront planning to reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences resulting from a dam failure, and to recover more effectively in the event of a failure.

Selection Criteria: This two-day course is designed for stakeholders in communities that could be affected by a dam breach or failure. Applicants should have experience in one or more of the following areas: dam ownership, dam operations, emergency action planning, emergency response, land use planning, or transportation planning.

The Hazard Mitigation (HM) Disaster Operations courses are intended to provide a segue between the general hazard mitigation training provided in the introductory course and the functionthey will learn in a field assignment. These courses are not intended to enable new employees to successfully complete all the requirements of their disaster assignment. The HM courses provide an orientation to the HM functional organization and activities of the organization, sources of information for the function, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular function.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM insurance specialists. A secondary audience is the HM insurance specialist experts and HM insurance crew leaders who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review. HM floodplain management staff will benefit from this course because there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.

The Hazard Mitigation (HM) Disaster Operations courses are intended to provide a segue between the general hazard mitigation training provided in the introductory course and the function they will learn in a field assignment. These courses are not intended to enable new employees to successfully complete all the requirements of their disaster assignment. The HM courses provide an orientation to the HM functional organization and activities of the organization, sources of information for the function, important relationships, and any other critical points that are essential to the particular function.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM floodplain management staff. A secondary audience is HM floodplain management specialist experts and supervisors who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review. HM Insurance staff will benefit from this course as there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.

HM insurance staff will benefit from this course as there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.

The goal of this course is to acquaint members of various communities of practice (emergency management, public works, water/wastewater, healthcare, etc.) with requirements related to provision of temporay emergency power to their facilities following disruption of the commercial power grid.

This interactive course provides a practical look at how changes to FEMA flood maps affect property owners, insurance agents, lending institutions and others. FEMA Mapping Changes explores the impact of map changes through a series of self-guided interactive exercises designed to assist learners with how to navigate through mapping changes as they occur.

Isolation and Quarantine for Rural Communities is designed to provide individuals with the general knowledge necessary to begin planning for situations requiring the isolation and/or quarantine (I&Q) of a large portion of local, rural populations. This self-paced, web-based course will educate learners on I&Q in a modern context, discuss legal and ethical issues associated with I&Q, and present preparedness, planning, response, and support considerations. In addition, Isolation and Quarantine for Rural Communities will address communication strategies as well as I&Q resources.

This 12-hour course will provide tools to protect, respond to, and recover from the consequences of disasters e.g. fire, flood, heat, earthquake, tornadoes, hurricanes, hazardous materials and catastrophic disease exposure involving animals in rural communities. The course will introduce participants to the unique issues that must be considered and addressed when animals are involved in an emergency such as safe animal handling, animal evacuation, animal sheltering, humane euthanasia and carcass disposal, inclusion of animal management into existing ICS structures, federal support available during recovery, and unique considerations for conducting jurisdictional assessments and mapping evacuation routes. All content will be presented in a blended learning style in which introductory material will be presented online and hands-on, problem-solving activities will be completed in small groups at the face-to-face portion of the class.

The course provides individuals, community leaders and first-responders with information on how cyber attacks can impact, prevent, and/or stop operations and emergency responses in a community.It also serves as a cursory introduction to cyber threats, vulnerabilities and countermeasures. It explains vulnerabilities of computer systems and networks and how these vulnerabilities can affect communities. The course introduces actions communities can take in establishing a cyber security program.

This course teaches local, state, and Federal government planners to understand and apply the concepts and principles in the FEMA Operational Planning Manual. The course emphasizes that the successful development and implementation of emergency operations plans depends on these skills.

This course reviews key characteristics of basement buildings and discusses covered and non-covered building and personal property items located in basement buildings. The final section concludes with special adjustment issues.

Selection Criteria: Flood claims adjusters employed by a claims adjusting company, insurance companies that write NFIP flood insurance (WYO), or contracted to work through other adjusting companies, salvors, engineers, architects, building code officials, floodplain managers, local officials and the general public

The Homeland Security Geospatial Concept-of-Operations (GeoCONOPS) is a mission blueprint that supports emergency managers, incident commanders and geospatial practitioners to identify points of collaboration, best practices, technical capabilities and authoritative data sources to improve the effectiveness of geospatial information and tools that support incident management. The three courses are designed to provide users with information explaining the importance and relevance of the GeoCONOPS to the broader homeland security community to encourage engagement and participation in the continued enhancement and expansion of the content of the GeoCONOPS.

This coursehas been designed to present thefour basic values of the GeoCONOPS to users from several perspectives:

Points-of-Collaboration

Technical Capabilities

Sources for Authoritative Data

Best Practices

These perspectives include technical, policy and doctrine and professional. The module “GeoCONOPS In-Depth” focuses on the GeoCONOPS relevance and importance to federal policy and doctrine for emergency management with a focus on the National Preparedness Directive – PPD-8 and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). At the conclusion of this module, students will be familiarized with the importance of thefour key values of the GeoCONOPS to the National Preparedness System, NIMS and the Incident Command System (ICS).

The Homeland Security Geospatial Concept-of-Operations (GeoCONOPS) In Use

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

0.5

Emergency Management

Intelligence and Information Sharing

Respond

EMI

This course has been designed to present thefour basic values of the GeoCONOPS to users from several perspectives:

Points-of-Collaboration

Technical Capabilities

Sources for Authoritative Data

Best Practices

These perspectives include professional, technical and policy, and doctrine. The module “GeoCONOPS In Practice” focuses on the importance of the GeoCONOPS to the professional roles of emergency manager, incident commander and geospatial practitioner. This module presents the content of the GeoCONOPS using one of two scenarios that are incorporated into the GeoCONOPS. At the conclusion of this module, students will be familiarized with thefour key values of the GeoCONOPS in support of the different roles that are critical to emergency management.

The DHS GII is an array of managed geospatial data services, tools and capabilities that support the full range of mission within the Department. This course will familiarize the student with the content, tools and capabilities of the GII and will provide instructions how students can best connect to the rich content of the GII.

This course will familiarize the learner with the controls and functions of the DHS Common Operating Picture (COP) application. Upon completion of this course, the learner will have a general understanding of how to leverage the DHS COP application.

Community-led Action in Response to Violent Extremism is a 4-hour online course targeted at the FEMA “awareness” training level. CARVE provides community-focused, rigorously researched, and academically-informed instruction on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). CARVE is comprised of two modules and is intended to provide a general introduction to radicalization to violence and community-based efforts. This self-paced course will be available to an unlimited number of participants.

This new online course will enable community leaders, network/security personnel and those individuals involved in developing or maintaining plans used for and throughout the community. This course will assist participants to understand what is required to develop a coordinated, sustained, and viable community cyber security program. The course will introduce participants at all levels to the DHS-supported Community Cyber Security Maturity Model (CCSMM) and can be used to guide communities and states in developing their own CCSMM-consistent cybersecurity programs. Participants will be introduced to different resources that can be used for a community program.

This 8-hour course will provide the background information needed to lead a multi-agency team of emergency planners in the development of an ESF annex for food and/or animal related disasters to supplement their community’s existing EOP. The course will address topics such as agro terrorism; detection and diagnosis; the unique challenges that rural communities face in planning for and responding to food and/or animal related disasters; utilization of Emergency Support Functions (ESF); recovery and the importance of sustainable operations during a disaster event; and mapping a community to identify areas of vulnerability and resources. All content will be presented through instructor led delivery with hands-on, problem-solving activities completed in small groups during the class.

This course provides Branch Directors and Group Supervisors with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to lead the management, coordination, and oversight of the DSA mission on federal disaster operations.

Disaster Preparedness for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations Within the Community Infrastructure brings together those individuals from the hospital and healthcare community who are responsible for ensuring the resiliency of healthcare services during a high consequence or catastrophic event within a jurisdiction. Through a focus on preparedness processes and activities, this course provides an opportunity for participants to acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to help them ensure the sustainability of their facilities and organizations during all types of disasters.

This course will equip participants to conduct damage assessment in accordance with the Damage Assessment Operations Manual: A Guide to Assessing Damage and Impact.

Flexible Delivery materials will take approximately 8-10 hours to deliver. Instructors should leave 2 hours for personnel to take the online version of the test to receive credit.

Selection Criteria: This course is designed for anyone who may be involved in damage assessment as a team member, team lead, or coordinator. The target audience includes Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial representatives from a wide range of job positions and responsibilities.

This course offers training in the fundamentals of how FEMA conducts operational planning activities. The goal of this training is to maximize planning interoperability within FEMA and the national and regional interagency and to ensure proper coordination with the state, local, and tribal planners.

This four-hour awareness-level training course will provide community and volunteer groups, state and local government agencies, and other stakeholder groups, as well as concerned citizens, with relevant information and practical exercises that will improve their knowledge and skills to better serve the communication needs of their communities. The course is designed to help participants to better understand the importance of communicating with different groups at different times, and to evaluate the various tools available to affect communications.

This course is designed to prepare PA Site Inspectors to perform their roles and responsibilities related to the collection of essential elements of information necessary for the development of the DDD. This course introduces Site Inspectors to the basic PA grant delivery process and prepares all trainees to conduct site inspections and develop DDDs through lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities.

This course is required to train the Program Delivery Manager to ensure they understand their specific roles and responsibilities in administering the FEMA Public Assistance Program and their contribution in helping to facilitate and maximize an applicant’s recovery process.

Customer service, program/project management, and operational planning serve as the organizational structure for this course. This course also includes instruction on effective communications and customer service techniques and introduces the participant to the principles of lean management.

Selection Criteria: Staff deployed in the position of a FEMA PA Program Delivery Manager.

Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disaster Train the Trainer

Mobile/Non-Resident, Residential

EMI

6.5

Emergency Management

Community Resilience

Respond, Recover

EMI

The purpose of the Train-the-Trainer for E/G/L0505 (Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency) course is to provide a sound and consistent basis for training instructors on how to provide students with religious/cultural literacy and competency in disasters.

Selection Criteria: Successful completion ofthe IS0505 or Flexible Delivery IS0505 course, and preferably should have a background in both emergency management and religious and cultural literacy.

The intent of this course is to provide a mechanism for DHS employees in all related disciplines who utilize radio communications systems to understand the operation of portable/mobile radios, the basics of how radio systems work, and the principles and concepts of interoperable communications (especially within the National Incident Management System). Additionally, this training will provide instruction on how to locate and properly the DHS Common Interoperability Channels.

Selection Criteria: DHS operational component members who utilize a radio as part of their first-line or collateral duty.

This is the first course in the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) web-based training series. This course provides an overview of the history of the ISC, its mission and organization, and a basic outline of the ISC Risk Management Process (RMP).

This is the second course in the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) web-based training series. This course provides an overview of ISC facility security standards and policies and other documents that support the Risk Management Process (RMP).

This is the third course in the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) web-based training series. The purpose of this course is to provide Federal personnel with responsibilities for security-related policies, programs, projects, and/or operations for their department or agency an overview of the process to determine the Facility Security Level (FSL) for a Federal facility.

Levels of Protection (LOP) and Application of the Design-Basis Threat (DBT) Report

Online/Distance Learning

EMI

1.25

Emergency Management

Risk Management for Protection Programs and Activities

Protect

EMI

The purpose of this For Official Use Only course is to provide Federal personnel with responsibilities for security-related policies, programs, projects, and/or operations for their department or agency an overview of the process to determine the Facility Security Level (FSL) for a Federal facility.

The purpose of this course is to provide Federal personnel with an overview of Facility Security Committees (FSCs), including: their members, their roles and responsibilities, and policies and procedures for FSC operations and decision-making.

This course is an abbreviated (2 day) surge version of the Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) Specialist Course (5 day). It focuses on abbreviated units of the DSA Mission, 5 Essential Functions, Assessing, Informing and Reporting (AIR), Support to Disaster Operations, Registration Intake, Applicant Inquiry and Web Resources. This course is NOT meant to take the place of the full DSA Specialist Course and is primarily designed to prepare Surge Capacity Force (SCF) personnel to undertake and support limited DSA functions during disaster operations.

Candidates will have ONE YEAR to complete a full exercise package, either full-scale or functional (no TTX), and present their exercise to a review board of SME’s. This will be conducted virtually, via VTC, FaceTime or Adobe Connect. Candidates should also include a video highlighting clips of their exercise being conducted.

Selection Criteria: The participant must have status as a current MEPP Candidate by completing E0132 and E0133.

This course covers investigative methods and standards for the acquisition, extraction, preservation, analysis and deposition of digital evidence from storage devices. This course offers a wide array of forensics situations that are applicable to the real world. Students will learn how to find traces of illegal or illicit activities left on disk with computer forensics tools and manual techniques, and how to recover data intentionally hidden or encrypted by perpetrators.

This 40-hour course is designed to provide participants with advanced knowledge and practical skills needed to respond to a complex, tactical surface transportation incident involving HazMat/WMD. Participants will then learn to operate real tactical weapons using Simunitions® non-lethal training weapons and ammunition while wearing protective clothing and respiratory systems. Participants will learn to respond properly to emergency incidents involving various modes of mass transit transportation, including heavy medium and light rail systems, commercial and school buses. Students will learn to select the Personal Protective Equipment and respiratory protection for the threat presented in any emergency. They will learn how to use monitoring equipment to help them determine what type of HazMat/WMD students may be confronting. Students will conduct site assessments, determine which level of protective equipment is appropriate for various situations, develop tactical plans and conduct tactical assaults on full-scale passenger train cars, locomotives, commercial buses and school buses. Students will be involved in a variety of Shoot OR Don’t Shoot situations utilizing simunitions. Scenarios also involve Active Shooter role playing. After receiving the curriculum and participating in the scenario-based incidents, successful participants will be capable of overseeing and performing surface transportation emergency response activities during real life incidents.

The PRND Backpack Refresher, enables law enforcement, fire service and other response disciplines, assigned to Primary Screener duties, to employ the Backpack radiation detection system. The course includes refresher training on the detection and verification of radiation alarms, localizing the source of radiation, and measuring detected radioactive material with increased range and sensitivity using a Backpack along with a Personal Radiation Detector (PRD). The Operator will review the operational considerations to employ the Backpack to detect radiation on/in people, vehicles, packages and/or facilities.

A key role in the Incident Command System (ICS), a component of NIMS organizational structure, is the Incident Commander (IC). It is important for the IC to have effective leadership skills and to establish clear, concise objectives for the other functions while under pressure. The chaos of the incident can increase stress; therefore, this course will equip leaders for crisis decision making during various hazmat incidents, with a special emphasis on events involving fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate (FGAN) and high hazard flammability trains (HHFT). Elements of the course include using pre-incident action plans, unified command and interoperability with industry, information sharing, and training.

Flooding Hazards: Science and Preparedness is an awareness-level, eight-hour course that addresses the current science of the causes of floods (both meteorological and otherwise), flood forecasting, flood risk assessment, and best practices for preparation and mitigation for both short- and long-fuse flooding events.

Effective whole community planning requires a collaborative and engaging team of stakeholders representing local residents, non-profit, government, private sector, and emergency management officials. In accordance with the Emergency Planning Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC) and Tribal Emergency Planning Committees (TEPC) act in this role to strengthen the community’s ability to prepare for hazardous material incidents. This course has a special focus on incidents involving fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate (FGAN) and those events involving high hazard flammability trains (HHFT). This course will equip LEPC/TEPCs with the knowledge, tools and best practices needed to establish an engaging and productive team among the whole community of stakeholders.

Coalition-Building for CVE and Community Resilience” is a two-day, in-person course which offers an opportunity for learners to develop a community-led plan for building a program or initiative to address violent extremism and promote community resilience. This course provides instruction on how diverse community stakeholders may develop partnerships and multidisciplinary coalitions to collaboratively address the multidimensional needs of individuals and communities contending with violent extremism. This course is comprised of four modules based on multiple completed and ongoing START research projects conducted over the past ten years.

The course is designed to satisfy the needs of a specific jurisdiction by providing a wide variety of drills from which the agency may select to address their training needs. The course is limited to 4 hours and is based on the jurisdictions equipment (or CTOS equipment cache). Selection of the drill and practical scenarios can be determined at the pre-course visit between the jurisdiction and the CTOS Course Director. Job Performance Requirements (JPRs) will be used to assess the required skills. The collection of these assessment tools (JPRs), as well as the cache of drills, will continue to grow as needs are identified within the various jurisdictions.

Through the use of this course, exercise program managers can learn to develop, execute, and evaluate exercises that address the priorities established by an organization’s leaders. These priorities are based on the National Preparedness Goal, strategy documents, threat and hazard identification/risk assessment processes, capability assessments, and the results from previous exercises and real-world events. These priorities guide the overall direction of a progressive exercise program, where individual exercises are anchored to a common set of priorities or objectives and build toward an increasing level of complexity over time.

This course will provide NEMIS HMGP users with the basic information they need to enter HMGP applications in the system, review application information, and verify and submit HMGP applications to FEMA.

Selection Criteria: The primary audience for the course is state, tribal and local HMGP applicants with access to the NEMIS HMPG system. Additional audiences include FEMA personnel with access to the NEMIS HMGP system.

This eight-hour performance-level course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to implement strategies to better engage individuals and partner organizations. This course builds upon the existing PER-304 Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery course by providing participants with more in-depth training in the use of content types, engagement strategies, and measurement tools for social media. This course will also help participants create a social media strategy and better adapt to changing needs and strategies throughout the phases of emergency management. The overall goal of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to use social media strategies and concepts to better engage individuals and partner organizations.

This course trains public safety personnel to improve their observational techniques by using an ongoing screening process that includes increasing protective awareness, identifying hostile surveillance detection techniques, evaluating, and taking action. First, participants will learn ways to increase their personal situational awareness and observation skills. Next, instructors will introduce participants to common behaviors and objects that are associated with preoperational terrorism activities. Participants will then learn to evaluate their observations associated with conducting hostile surveillance on a target and decide what action is appropriate: dismiss, continue observing, contact, or report.

The Performance 354Response to Radiological/Nuclear Weapon of Mass Destruction Incidents course is an instructor led drill-based course delivered at the Nevada National Security Site. The course combines individual and team performance skills required in the response to a radiological WMD incident. The course objectives include:

The current terrorist threats related to Radiological/Nuclear (R/N) WMDs

This management-level instructor-led course will provide lectures, knowledge checks, and course module tools/activities on pre-disaster debris management planning. The focus of the course is to identify debris management plan components and best planning practices using existing plan examples and case studies and to draft an outline of a debris management plan. This course will empower participants to create pre-disaster debris management plans for their own communities.

The purpose of the Introduction to Radiological/Nuclear Operations, AWR-140, course, is to provide awareness and operations level training to those participants, who in the course of their normal duties could encounter a radiological/nuclear incident. The course will introduce topics that are relevant to a radiological/nuclear operation: Radiation, Radiological/Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Threats, Recognition and Notification, Protective Actions. This training will provide the participant with the fundamental knowledge of radiation and give the participant the awareness level knowledge (defensive posture) to respond to a radiological/nuclear WMD incident. It will train the awareness level tasks - recognition, self-protection, notification and secure the area - as it relates to a radiological incident. This will be accomplished by explaining protective actions and presenting administrative and engineering controls/procedures to help minimize health risks during a radiological emergency.The course also covers material found at the operations level and meets a large portion of NFPA-472 Annex D-Analyzing the Incident. Participants who complete this course (AWR-140) along with the CTOS Instrument Course and Operations Response to Radiological/Nuclear WMDs will have completed the competencies, behaviors and tasks found in NFPA-472 Annex D and met the intent of the Standard.

Integrating Mental Health and Education Approaches into CVE is a self-paced online course that provides instruction on how educators and mental health professionals may collaboratively address the multidimensional needs of individuals and communities contending with violent extremism. Specifically, this course will examine current practices from the mental health and education fields that may contribute to whole community approaches to countering violent extremism.

This course enhances the participants’ abilities to support their organizations’ tsunami preparedness and response efforts. It provides participants with an understanding of: The tsunami hazard, current hazard assessment tools and products, tsunami warning and dissemination systems and methods and methods of community response to local and distant tsunamis. At the conclusion of each module, students will participate in a facilitator-led scenario-based group activity that challenges them to identify effective actions that will reduce the impact of a tsunami in their communities. In these activities, participants apply their knowledge of the presented materials to actual tsunami preparedness, mitigation, and response issues. Through these exercises, participants come to understand how organizational preparedness and community-level planning tools support tsunami preparedness

The Preventive Radiological/Nuclear Detection (PRND) Maritime Course, enables personnel, assigned to radiation detection Primary Screener duties, to detect radiation, verify radiation alarms, localize the source of radiation, and measure detected radioactive material with increased range and sensitivity using a (PRD), Backpack and a boat-mounted, standoff radiological/nuclear detection system. Host agencies may elect to supply radioactive materials during the class to enhance the learning experience. These sources are intended to simulate the types of radioactivematerial that the Primary Screener may encounter in the public domain.

Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents-Partnering Rural Law Enforcement, First Responders, and Local School Systems-Web-Based

Online/Distance Learning

RDPC

8.0

Public Health, Public Safety Communications, Public Works, Other

Planning

Whole Community Inclusive Planning

Prevent, Protect, Respond, Recover, Common

NTED

This awareness-level course has been developed to educate rural emergency responders, in particular law enforcement, as well as school administrators and staff on the elements that must be in place to effectively respond to school-based emergencies. This course provides an opportunity for rural law enforcement and school personnel to develop a partnership with regard to school safety through effective collaborative planning, preparedness, communication, and coordination of resources. Topics covered during this course include: incident planning and preparedness, proactive threat mitigation, incident response and recovery, vulnerability assessments, threat assessment management, incident debriefing and defusing, and parent reunification. Upon completion of this course, participants will be better prepared to work together during a crisis.To register for this course, visit: www.ruraltraining.org/training/courses/awr-148-w/

The Cybersecurity Incident Response for IT Personnel course is designed to address the gap in specific technical skills needed for an effective cyber response. This course will also help improve the limited availability of targeted hands-on IT and security training focused on cyber attacks. This training focuses on government and private sector technical personnel who have intermediate and advanced knowledge of network operations and/or the responsibility for network security.This course utilizes the Metova Virtualized Cyber Classroom Environment (VCCE) for incident simulation which provides many features that resemble or imitate actual cyber incidents.

This course will provide instruction and guidance in identifying and use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) essential for response to hazardous materials incidents. This includes an in depth inspection of available equipment, their use, and selecting the appropriate PPE for a hazardous materials incident based upon they type of emergency and the hazards that may exist.

The Preventive Radiological Nuclear Detection (PRND) Team Leader course provides experienced PRND Team Operators with the required training to attain this supervisory position. The course is designed to produce participant proficiency in the performance of the duties associated with the position as outlined in the NIMS typing documents. The course builds on the knowledge of the Team Operator and provides the opportunity to apply this knowledge to real world scenarios and practical exercises. At the completion of the course the participant can complete the qualification and credentialing process with his agency by use of a Position Task Book (PTB) supplied with the course materials.

The goal of this course is to equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to serve as Crew Leader and Task Force Leaders in the Mission and Outreach Support, RSF Field Coordinators, and Coordination positions within the IRC operation, in support of disaster-impacted state, tribal, territorial, and local communities.

The intent of this course is to prepare trainers to deliver the WMD radiological/nuclear awareness course. It focuses on the delivery of the AWR-140 course, including class preparation, instructional techniques, completion of course paperwork, and notes and delivery tips, slide groupings, key points, and information to aid instruction.

The Population Monitoring at Community Reception Centers course is designed to provide the first responder and Community Reception Center (CRC) personnel with the individual skills needed to operate monitoring stations within the Community Reception Center (CRC) - or, similar reception centers – to perform population monitoring and contamination reduction measures after a radiological or nuclear incident.

To provide participants with knowledge related to training adults; skills to prepare for, present, and facilitate the Damage Assessment Operations Training course; and an opportunity to apply this knowledge during classroom exercises.

Selection Criteria: People from all levels of government who will be teaching the Damage Assessment Flexible Delivery course or Just in Time modules.

This course provides an overview of the National Preparedness Goal and the National Preparedness System. The foundation of this course is the National Preparedness Goal which identifies the Nation’s core capabilities required for executing the five mission areas of Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery. This course also focuses on the National Preparedness System that builds on current efforts, many of which are based on the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act and other statutes. Implementing the National Preparedness System allows our Nation to work together to prepare for and address any threat or hazard. The goal of this course is to familiarize participants with the National Preparedness Goal and the six main components of the National Preparedness System.

The course introduces participants to the concepts and principles of the National Prevention Framework. The goal of this course is to familiarize participants with the National Prevention Framework which provides guidance for all levels of government, private and nonprofit-sector partners, and individuals to prevent, avoid, or stop a threatened or actual act of terrorism.

Selection Criteria: Government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners. This includes senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county officials – those who have a responsibility to provide for effective prevention.

All levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and individuals that play a role in preventing terrorism.

This course introduces participants to the concepts and principles of the National Protection Framework. The goal of this course is to familiarize participants with the National Protection Framework, which describes the way that the whole community safeguards against acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other threats or hazards.

Selection Criteria: This course is intended for government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners. This includes senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county officials – those who have a responsibility to provide for effective protection.

This course introduces participants to the concepts and principles of the National Mitigation Framework. The goal of this course is to familiarize participants with the National Mitigation Framework, which outlines how the nation can expand its commitment to mitigation and strengthen resilience.

Selection Criteria: Government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners. This includes senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county officials – those who have a responsibility to provide for effective mitigation.